Ruth Cranston ( pseudonym, Anne Warwick; November 14, 1887 – April 2, 1956)Bayles, Allison L
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p. 134 (1988) (states she was born in 1889) was an American author and lecturer on religion and other subjects.

Biography

A daughter of Methodist Bishop

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, Ruth Cranston was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was taught by tutors in France and Switzerland, and traveled frequently with her family on her father's missionary work. She returned to the United States for college, and graduated from Goucher College in 1908.(4 April 1956)
Ruth Cranston, Writer, Lecturer
'' The New York Times'' While in college she wrote three articles on what women can do after graduation, which were published in '' The Delineator''. She then went to travel abroad, first to Vienna, where she penned some articles for American publications.Anne Warwick
''The Bookseller, Newsdealer and Stationer'', March 1, 1915, p. 206, 218 Turning to writing novels, she proceeded to publish a number of novels under the pseudonym "Anne Warwick","Anne Warwick", Zeta
''The Alpha Phi Quarterly'', June 1914, Vol. XXVI, No.3, p. 299-300 including seven novels by 1915.(20 March 1915)
Seven Novels in Five Busy Years
'' The Sun (New York)'', p. 8 Her first novel, ''Compensation'' (1911), caused a stir in Washington, D.C. social circles.(13 May 1912)
Bishop's Daughter Is Author
''The Washington Herald'', p. 2, col. 3 She married William Bleecher Newlin in London in July 1911.(21 July 1911)
Wedded in London - W.B. Newlin Married to Daughter of Bishop Earl Cranston
'' The New York Times'' Her last Warwick book was published in 1918. Cranston returned to the United States in 1919, after working for close to a year with the Red Cross, and by this time apparently divorced.(1 June 1919)
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'' The New York Times'' She later worked in Geneva for ten years promoting international cooperation movements. Her books published under her own name, which came in her later years, focused on non-fiction and religious subjects, including a biography of Woodrow Wilson (Cranston had gone to college to Wilson's daughters), a history of major religions (''World Faith''),(22 August 201)
Dan Gediman, Ruth Cranston and This I Believe
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'' (featuring an essay on religious belief by Cranston recorded in the 1950s) and ''The Miracle of Lourdes'' (1955) about the Our Lady of Lourdes shrine. She lived in

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in her later years, and died at St. Luke's Hospital on April 2, 1956, while on a lecture tour. Her '' New York Times'' obituary did not mention her early writings as Anne Warwick. ''The Miracle of Lourdes'' was last reissued, in an expanded version, in 1988.

Selected bibliography

* ''The League That Did Not Fail'' (1944) * ''The Story of Woodrow Wilson'' (1945) * ''World Faith: The Story of the Religions of the United Nations'' (1946) * ''What We All Believe'' (1951) * ''The Miracle of Lourdes'' (1955)

As "Anne Warwick"

* ''Compensation'' (1911)(18 March 1911)
"Washington Society Does Not Run After The Newly Rich," Is Answer to the New Book by Bishop Cranston's Daughter
''The Washington Times'' * ''Mastering Flame'' (1911) (first published anonymously)Some Representative Fiction
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'', February 1913, p. 241 * ''The Unknown Woman'' (1912)Chronicle and Comment
'' The Bookman (New York)'', April 1912 (Vol. XXXV, No. 2), at p. 131(23 March 1912)
Anne Warwick Writes Book In Three Weeks
'' The Sun (New York)'', p. 11, col. 1. * Inside Out (Nov 4, 1912 Ainslee's Magazine) * ''Ashes of Incense'' (1912) (first published anonymously)Garnett, Porter (3 March 1913)
The Humanizing of a Perverse Woman
'' San Francisco Call'', p. 7, col. 4 * ''The Meccas of the World'' (1913)(1 February 1914)
Modern Meccas - Anne Warwick's Drama of Five Great Cities
'' The New York Times'' (Title in England: ''My Cosmopolitan Year'', published anonymously) * ''Victory Law'' (1914) * ''The Chalk Line'' (1915) * ''The Unpretenders'' (1916) * ''The Best People'' (1918)

References

External links

The Ruth Cranston Papers, 1908-1957
at Berea College * *
Compensation
(1911) (full scan at Google books) {{DEFAULTSORT:Cranston, Ruth 1887 births 1956 deaths 20th-century American novelists American women novelists Writers from Cincinnati American expatriates in France American expatriates in Switzerland Goucher College alumni 20th-century American women writers People from Sierra Madre, California Novelists from California Novelists from Ohio Pseudonymous women writers 20th-century pseudonymous writers