1. Eda Hurd Lord was an American writer and longtime companion of writer Sybille Bedford.
10 Facts About Eda Lord
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Eda Lord was born in Durango, Mexico on July 30,1907.
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Eda Lord was the granddaughter of Eda Isadore Hurd and George Sterling Lord.
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Eda Lord's aunt was the visual artist Eda Lord Dixon.
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Eda Lord attended but did not graduate from Stanford University.
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Eda Lord is the author of three auto-biographical novels Childsplay, A Matter of Choosing, and Extenuating Circumstances.
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Eda Lord wrote short stories published in the Paris Review and Harper's Bazaar.
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Eda Lord moved to France before World War II and was taken prisoner by the Germans for a short period as a citizen of an enemy country.
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Eda Lord was friends with Barbara Perkins Gamow and some of her letters to Gamow are preserved in the George Gamow and Barbara Gamow Papers at the Library of Congress.
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Eda Lord was a lifelong smoker and contracted throat cancer.