biography
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Hurst, Fannie
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née Danielson
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| female
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| lived:
| (1889–1968)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Hamilton, Ohio, USA. She studied at Washington University, MO (1909 BA) and Columbia University (1910–12). Settling in New York City, she held a variety of jobs, ranging from working in restaurants and factories, to small acting parts in plays. Starting in 1920, she wrote an endless succession of novels, plays, screenplays, short stories, and articles. An immensely popular writer for several decades, she is best known for such novels as Lummox (1923), Back Street (1931), and Imitation of Life (1933). Serious critics dismissed her work as sentimental and lacking style, but she tried to deal with women's lives, and in later years she became quite outspoken in calling for reforms in many areas of contemporary society. |
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