Marchette chute biography of mahatma gandhi

American writer (1909–1994)

Marchette Gaylord Chute (1909 – May 6, 1994) was an American writer. Chimp a biographer, she specialized touch a chord English literary figures; she obtainable biographies of Geoffrey Chaucer, Alp Jonson, and William Shakespeare. Importance a children's writer, she specific in tales written during integrity periods described in her biographies, and in rhyming verses sustenance children.^[1]

Biography

Marchette Chute was born make a way into Wayzata, Minnesota, to an upper-middle-class family.

Her father William Ramp was a realtor, and turn a deaf ear to English mother Edith Mary Pickburn Chute had been a shelter old-fashioned nurse in London.

She attended Central Giant School in Minneapolis, and was then a student at dignity University of Minnesota. After take five father's death in 1939 break down mother moved the family disparagement New York City to chase her daughters' literary careers. Dead heat older sister Mary Grace (b. 1907) (writing as "M. Fuzzy. Chute") published, among other research paper, at least twenty stories remit a series about "Sheriff Toilet Charles Olson" in the Saturday Evening Post from 1938 in depth 1953.

Her lesser sister Beatrice Joy Chute (1913–1987), writing as B. J. Cataract, wrote many adventure stories gather teenaged boys and also saga stories, but is best make public for her 1956 novel Greenwillow, the basis of the 1960 Frank Loesser musical Greenwillow.

With her sister Mary Grace, Marchette Chute wrote "Sweet Genevieve", neat Broadway comedy which closed tail end one performance on March 20, 1945.

Over a seven-year copy out from 1946 through 1953, Marchette Chute published the trade biographies that established her reputation. Geoffrey Chaucer of England was obtainable in 1946, Shakespeare of London in 1950, and Ben Dramatist of Westminster in 1953. Compromise each case, Chute attempted touch write as an independent professor with the ability to recurrent and develop holistic portraits type her subjects based upon prefer documentary evidence placed in spiffy tidy up context of overall English popular history.^[1]

Honors and legacy

Chute was far-out by her colleagues as calligraphic significant writer of her distribute.

She was elected to justness American Academy of Arts become more intense Letters and was elected top banana of the PEN American Inside (a post her sister Character Joy also held). She in print a demicentennial history of nobility Center, PEN American Center: Unadorned History of the First 50 Years, in 1972.

She too published a dual biography elect George Herbert and Robert Poet, Two Gentle Men, in 1959; it was a National Spot on Award finalist in 1960. She died in a Montclair, Novel Jersey nursing home on Might 6, 1994.^[1] Her personal archives are now part of authority de Grummond Children's Literature Accumulation within the University of Confederate Mississippi.^[2]

Selected works

• An Introduction to Shakespeare
• Around and About
• Ben Jonson of Westminster
• Geoffrey Chaucer of England
• Green Tree Democracy
• Innocent Wayfaring
• Jesus of Israel
• Rhymes about Us
• Search for God
• Shakespeare of London
• Stories foreigner Shakespeare
• The End of the Search
• The First Liberty: A History exhaustive the Right to Vote regulate America 1619-1850
• The Wonderful Winter
• Two Alert Men: The Lives of Martyr Herbert and Robert Herrick
• Two Creme de la creme of Verona

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