biography
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| lived:
| (1908–88)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Boston, Massachusetts USA. She studied art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (1927, 1928) and with her artist father, Phillip L Hale. She worked as an editor for Vogue (1928–32) and Vanity Fair (1932–3), and was the first woman reporter for the New York Times (1935). A lecturer at Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Middlebury, VT (1957–65), she was based in Charlottesville, VA. Her works include plays, critical essays, a biography of Mary Cassatt, novels, and memoirs, as in A New England Childhood (1958), but she is best known for her short stories, such as The Pattern of Perfection (1960). |
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