Maude Radford Warren

Lt. Col. Ruby Dwight Garrett, Honorary Maj. Maude Radford Warren, Maj. R.T. Smith In 1919

Maude Radford Warren (1875–1934) was a Canadian author of children's literature and short fiction.

Biography

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Warren was born in 1875 in Wolfe Island, Ontario.

She was a war correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post.[1]

She was also the author of many children's books, including King Arthur and His Knights, Robin Hood, Little Pioneers, and Indian Stories. Although a native of Canada, she was a graduate of the University of Chicago and taught in connection with the university. Her husband Joseph Parker Warren was a professor of the university.

Her fiction has been published by Harper Brothers, and she wrote for Woman's Home Companion, Harper's Magazine, the Saturday Evening Post, and Collier's.[2]

Warren died of carbon monoxide poisoning in 1934, at the age of 59, while living in Ithaca, New York.

References

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  1. ^ State Historical Society of Missouri 2020.
  2. ^ The Journal of Education Vol. 84, No. 12 (2098) (OCTOBER 5, 1916), p. 321
  • State Historical Society of Missouri (2020). "Photograph of Maude Radford Warren speaking to the 117th Field Signal Battalion". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Retrieved April 10, 2020.
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