biography
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| female
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| lived:
| (1895–1981)
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| biography:
| Writer and teacher, born in Trenton, Kentucky, USA. She studied at Bethany College, West Virginia (1916 BA), and married Allen Tate in 1924 (divorced 1954). She worked as a reporter in Tennessee (1920–4), taught at several institutions, including the universities of North Carolina and Columbia, and long lived in Princeton, NJ. She is known for her novels of the American South, such as Penhally (1931). |
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