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Grace Stone Coates (1881–1976)

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The Best American Short Stories of the Century (2000) — Bidragyder — 1,552 eksemplarer

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Fødselsdato
1881-05-20
Dødsdag
1976-01
Køn
female
Nationalitet
USA
Fødested
Kansas, USA
Dødssted
Bozeman, Montana, USA
Bopæl
Martinsdale, Montana, USA
Uddannelse
University of Chicago
University of Southern California
University of Hawaii
Erhverv
poet
short story writer
letter writer
teacher
school superintendent
journalist
Relationer
Saroyan, William (protégé)
Organisationer
The Frontier: A Magazine of the West
Bozeman Daily Chronicle
Kort biografi
Grace Stone Coates was born on a wheat farm in Kansas. Her father Heinrich Stone was a German immigrant with a classical background, having taught Greek in Berlin before coming to the USA. He recited poetry to his daughter and taught her Greek mythology as well as the names of all the trees and plants. Some of her later writings reflect this childhood influence. The family moved to Wisconsin when Grace was a teenager, and she attended Oshkosh State Normal School. She went on to study at the University of Chicago, the University of Southern California, and the University of Hawaii but never finished a degree. She obtained a teaching certificate in 1900 and moved to Montana to be closer to her sister Helen. In the mining town of Butte, she met Henderson Coates, and married him in 1910. They moved to Martinsdale, where her husband opened a general store with his brother and Grace taught school and served as Meagher County Superintendent from 1918-1921. She also started writing poetry, short stories, and letters. Her published works included two volumes of her collected poetry and the acclaimed book of short stories, Black Cherries (1931). She conducted a long correspondence with William Saroyan, who credited Grace with influencing his work; Frank Bird Linderman; Charles M. Russell; art historian James Rankin, and others. In 1927, H.G. Merriam asked her to write articles and poems for his western literary magazine The Frontier, and she eventually became the assistant editor. During the Great Depression, she helped write the WPA Federal Writers' Project Montana state guidebook. In 1963, after her husband's death, she moved to a retirement home in Bozeman and wrote a column for the Bozeman Daily Chronicle.

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A girl’s parents see picking and eating wild plums as something low class people would do, and forbid their daughter from picking or eating them. The neighbors quite enjoy their plums though, and invite the girl to go along with them. Not a particularly moving story, even with the humorous twit ending.

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