- Izola Forrester
Izola Forrester (1878-1944) was an American author who was born Izola Louise Wallingford.
She was the daughter of
George Wallingford Hills and Ogarita Elizabeth Bellows. After her mother’s death in 1892, Forrester was adopted by Harriet and George Forrester, by whom she was privately educated. In 1899 she married artistReuben Robert Merrifield , and had five children by him. In 1913 she married author and dramatistMann Page , and had three children by him.Forrester wrote for numerous publications, including the "
Chicago Tribune ", the "Chicago Record-Herald " and the "Chicago Daily News " until 1901, and for the "New York World ", 1901-1914. Among her books are "The Girls of Bonnie Castle" (1900), "Rock’s Nest" (1901), "Us Fellers" (1907), "Those Preston Twins" (1910), "The Polly Page Series" (4 volumes) (1910-13), the "Greenacre Girls Series" (1914-16), "The Dangerous Inheritance" (1920), "Jack O’Lantern" (1927), "The Door in the Mountain" (1928). Her most noted book, "This One Mad Act" (1937), describes Forrester’s own childhood, growing up with a mother and a grandmother who believed that they were the family ofAbraham Lincoln ’sassassin John Wilkes Booth . Forrester collaborated with Mann Page on 35 original motion picture feature stories.External links
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* [http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:RAD.SCHL:sch00368 Izola L. Forrester Papers.] [http://www.radcliffe.edu/schles Schlesinger Library,] Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
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