Fannie Heaslip Lea (October 30, 1884 – January 13, 1955) was an American author and poet,[1] best known for her poem "The Dead Faith".
Fannie Heaslip Lea | |
|---|---|
| Born | October 30, 1884 New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Died | January 13, 1955 (aged 70) New York, New York |
| Occupation | Author and poet |
| Alma mater | H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College |
| Notable works | "The Dead Faith" |
| Spouse |
Hamilton Pope Agee
(m. 1911; div. 1926) |
| Children | Anne Worthen Agee |
Biography edit
Fannie (sometimes spelled Fanny) Heaslip Lea, the daughter of newspaperman James J. Lea and Margaret Heaslip, was born in New Orleans, Louisiana.[1] After attending public schools in New Orleans, she matriculated to H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College in New Orleans, where she received a B.A. in 1904, and did graduate work in English at Tulane University in Louisiana for two years after.[2]
Until her marriage in 1911, she wrote feature articles for New Orleans daily newspapers and short stories for magazines such as Harper's, a short story, "Little Anna and the Gentleman Adventurer", in the 1910 The Century Magazine and Woman's Home Companion.[3] Afterwards, she moved with her husband, Hamilton Pope Agee,[4] to Honolulu. Her first novel, Quicksands, was published in this year. She continued to write through the birth of a daughter, Anne Worthen. She divorced Agee in 1926 and moved to New York, publishing 19 novels and more than 100 stories, poems, and essays in various newspapers and journals, until her death in 1955.
Lea wrote several plays. Her first, Round-About, was produced in 1929 by the New York Theatre Assembly.[5]
Her papers are housed in the University of Oregon Library in Eugene, Oregon.[6]
Bibliography edit
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- "The Dead Faith" (1908)[7]
- Quicksands (1911)
- Wild Goose Chance (1929)
- Verses for Lovers, and Some Others (1955)
Sources edit
- Ewell, Barbara C. (2000). "Lea, Fannie Heaslip". Novelguide.com. Archived from the original on July 23, 2011. Retrieved November 1, 2008.
References edit
- ^ a b Harvey, Chance (September 30, 2003). The Life and Selected Letters of Lyle Saxon. Pelican Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4556-0736-5.
- ^ Leonard, John William, ed. (1914), Woman's Who's Who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, 1914-1915, New York: American Commonwealth Company, p. 39.
- ^ "Chronological List (1908-1944)". The FictionMags Index. Archived from the original on September 4, 2008. Retrieved November 1, 2008.
- ^ Rice, Janice. "Biographies from Men of Hawaii transcribed for Genealogy Trails by Janice Rice". Archived from the original on July 8, 2012. Retrieved November 1, 2008.
- ^ "The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 28, 1929". Time. October 28, 1929. Retrieved February 19, 2022. Note: This reference does not mention the name of the play.
- ^ "Lea, Fanny Heaslip, 1884-1955 (search)". University of Oregon Library. Retrieved November 19, 2010.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "The Dead Faith". Archived from the original on October 22, 2009. Retrieved September 24, 2010.
External links edit
- Fannie Heaslip Lea at the FictionMags Index