1. Nancy Hale was an American novelist and short-story writer.
17 Facts About Nancy Hale
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Nancy Hale received the O Henry Award, a Benjamin Franklin magazine award, and the Henry H Bellaman Foundation Award for fiction.
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Nancy Hale began writing at an early age, producing a family newspaper, the Society Cat, at age eight, and publishing her first story, "The Key Glorious," in the Boston Herald, at age eleven.
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Nancy Hale devoted considerable energy to the study of art under her parents' tutelage.
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Nancy Hale graduated from the Winsor School in 1926 and studied at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and under her father at the Fenway Studios.
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In 1928, Hale moved to New York City with her first husband, where she was hired to work in the art department at Vogue.
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Nancy Hale was almost immediately put to work as an assistant editor and writer instead.
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Nancy Hale began writing as a freelancer as well, providing articles and short stories to Scribner's, Harper's, The American Mercury, and Vanity Fair.
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Nancy Hale was hired by the New York Times as its first woman straight news reporter in the spring of 1934, a job which she left after an exhausting six months.
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Nancy Hale settled in Charlottesville, VA, in 1936 with her second husband.
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Nancy Hale once claimed to have sold the magazine a record number of stories in one year and eventually published over 80, placing her among The New Yorker's most prolific fiction authors.
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Nancy Hale delivered a series of lectures at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 1959 and 1960 that she later published in The Realities of Fiction.
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Nancy Hale writes of her remarkable artistic family, successful career years, troubled marriages, and emotional breakdowns.
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In 1942, Nancy Hale married Fredson Bowers, a professor of English at the University of Virginia, and the couple stayed together until Nancy Hale's death over 45 years later.
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Nancy Hale died on September 24,1988, at the Martha Jefferson Hospital in Charlottesville.
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Nancy Hale won ten O Henry Awards for her short stories, beginning with "To the Invader" in 1932.
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Nancy Hale was awarded a Benjamin Franklin Magazine award from the University of Illinois, and the Henry H Bellaman Foundation Award for fiction.