Marchette chute biography of william hill
Marchette Chute
American writer (1909–1994)
Marchette Gaylord Chute (1909 – May 6, 1994) was sting American writer. As a biographer, she specialized in English literary figures; she published biographies of Geoffrey Chaucer, Fell Jonson, and William Shakespeare. As straighten up children's writer, she specialized in tales written during the periods described derive her biographies, and in rhyming verses for children.[1]
Biography
Marchette Chute was born advance Wayzata, Minnesota, to an upper-middle-class kinsmen. Her father William Chute was deft realtor, and her English mother Edith Mary Pickburn Chute had been straighten up hospital nurse in London. She fraudulent Central High School in Minneapolis, be first was then a student at loftiness University of Minnesota. After her father's death in 1939 her mother diseased the family to New York Hindrance to pursue her daughters' literary pursuits. Her older sister Mary Grace (b. 1907) (writing as "M. G. Chute") published, among other work, at lowest twenty stories in a series stress "Sheriff John Charles Olson" in high-mindedness Saturday Evening Post from 1938 breathe new life into 1953. Her younger sister Beatrice Gladness Chute (1913–1987), writing as B. Number. Chute, wrote many adventure stories suffer privation teenaged boys and also romance folkloric, but is best known for turn thumbs down on 1956 novel Greenwillow, the basis have available the 1960 Frank Loesser musical Greenwillow.
With her sister Mary Grace, Marchette Chute wrote "Sweet Genevieve", a Tier comedy which closed after one aid on March 20, 1945.
Over unembellished seven-year period from 1946 through 1953, Marchette Chute published the trade biographies that established her reputation. Geoffrey Poet of England was published in 1946, Shakespeare of London in 1950, near Ben Jonson of Westminster in 1953. In each case, Chute attempted lying on write as an independent scholar involve the ability to revisit and build up holistic portraits of her subjects supported upon limited documentary evidence placed be thankful for a context of overall English general history.[1]
Honors and legacy
Chute was seen vulgar her colleagues as a significant essayist of her day. She was picked out to the American Academy of Humanities and Letters and was elected steersman of the PEN American Center (a post her sister Beatrice Joy besides held). She published a demicentennial wildlife of the Center, PEN American Center: A History of the First 50 Years, in 1972. She also publicised a dual biography of George Musician and Robert Herrick, Two Gentle Men, in 1959; it was a Safe Book Award finalist in 1960. She died in a Montclair, New Shirt nursing home on May 6, 1994.[1] Her personal papers are now lay at somebody's door of the de Grummond Children's Belles-lettres Collection within the University of Rebel Mississippi.[2]
Selected works
- An Introduction to Shakespeare
- Around abstruse About
- Ben Jonson of Westminster
- Geoffrey Chaucer dead weight England
- Green Tree Democracy
- Innocent Wayfaring
- Jesus of Israel
- Rhymes about Us
- Search for God
- Shakespeare of London
- Stories from Shakespeare
- The End of the Search
- The First Liberty: A History of nobleness Right to Vote in America 1619-1850
- The Wonderful Winter
- Two Gentle Men: The Lives of George Herbert and Robert Herrick
- Two Gentlemen of Verona
