Chloe Maria Gartner Trimble (21 March 1916 – 6 August 2003) was an American historical novelist who wrote under the name Chloe Gartner. Born Chloe Maria Gartner in

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, where she spent her early childhood, Gartner was also raised in

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, in

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, and in

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, then as a young adult resided with her mother and stepfather in

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, where she attended Mesa College.''Ogden Standard-Examiner'' 22 October 1938 p. 7 Relocating to the

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originally to study at

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, Gartner subsequently took writing courses at the

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prior to a long-time tenure at the ''

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'' and was for a time married to ''Chronicle'' reporter Peter Trimble whom she met through her original ''Chronicle'' position of librarian, while Trimble was working his original ''Chronicle'' position of

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: the couple, who lived in San Francisco, became the parents of a daughter: Kristine Gartner Trimble Cameron, in 1947. From 1956 to 1961 Gartner worked as assistant to ''Chronicle'' columnist

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: by this time she was divorced and living with her daughter in

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.''San Rafael Daily Independent Journal'' 3 December 1960 p. 33 In 1937, while residing in Grand Junction, Gartner had a play entitled ''Obscure Destination'' published, and in 1938 she had published a one-act play: ''Perchance to Dream'' (published by

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), and also the first two of her few evident

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: "Giuseppe Goes Home" and "Prelude to Exile" which appeared in respectively the

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quarterly journal ''

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'' and the

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quarterly journal ''Frontier and Midland''. However Gartner evidently only began to write in earnest in the mid-1950s when a sudden interest in

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resulted in the 1960 publication of Gartner's first novel: ''The Infidels'', written over two years subsequent to a three-year period of research. Gartner subsequently had several novels with historical backgrounds published, as listed below:Results for "Chloe Gartner"
at

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* ''The Infidels'' (1960) * ''Drums of Khartoum'' (1967) * ''The Woman from the Glen'' (1973) * ''Mistress of the Highlands''
aka ''Highland Mistress'' (1976) * ''

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'' (1977) * ''Daughter of the Desert'' (1978) * ''The Image & the Dream'' (1980) * ''Still Falls the Rain'' (1986) * ''Greenleaf'' (1987) * ''Lower than the Angels'' (1989) In her later years Gartner resided with her daughter's family in

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References

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