1. Lella Warren was a novelist and short story writer who is best known for her historical novel Foundation Stone chronicling the life of Alabama settlers in the 19th century.
11 Facts About Lella Warren
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Lella Warren was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 1987.
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Lee Ella 'Lella' Warren was born in 1899, in Clayton, Alabama, to Lee Ella Underwood and Benjamin Smart Warren, a physician who helped to found the US Public Health Service.
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Lella Warren published her first novel, the quasi-autobiographical A Touch of Earth, in 1926.
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Lella Warren is best known for the 1940 novel Foundation Stone, considered her magnum opus.
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Lella Warren went beyond family history and did extensive research in archival documents such as court records to ensure the accuracy of her narrative.
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Key to the novel's success was Lella Warren's focus on the family life of Southern pioneers outside of the plantation world that Margaret Mitchell had popularized and glamorized in Gone with the Wind just a few years earlier.
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In 1952, Lella Warren published a sequel to Foundation Stone, the second in what she planned to make a trilogy.
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Lella Warren never completed the third novel in the trilogy, although her manuscript notes suggest she planned to incorporate sections from some of her short stories and unpublished writings into this novel.
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Lella Warren was still working on her third Whetstone novel when she died of cancer in 1982.
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In 1987, Lella Warren was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame.