Agnes Sligh Turnbull

Agnes Sligh Turnbull (October 14, 1888, New Alexandria, Pennsylvania - January 31, 1982, Livingston, New Jersey) was an American writer, most noted for her works of historical fiction based in her birthplace in Western Pennsylvania.

Biography

Agnes Sligh's parents were Alexander Halliday Sligh, an immigrant from Scotland; and Lucinda Hannah McConnell, also of Scottish descent. Agnes attended the village school, and went on to boarding school before enrolling at the Teachers College at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, from which she graduated Phi Beta Kappa. She also attended the University of Chicago before starting her career as a high school English teacher.

In 1918, she married James Lyall Turnbull, just before his departure for Europe during World War I. He returned, and they were married for 40 years and had one child, a daughter named Martha. The family moved to Maplewood, New Jersey in 1922, where she lived for the rest of her life. [Waggoner, Walter H. [http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=F50912FC3B5C0C718CDDAB0894DA484D81 "AGNES TURNBULL, NOVELIST, 93, DIES"] , "The New York Times", February 2, 1982. Accessed October 24, 2007. "Agnes Sligh Turnbull, a popular and prolific novelist and shortstory writer, died Sunday at St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, N.J. She was 93 years old and had lived in Maplewood, N.J., for 60 years."]

Turnbull had her first short story published by "The American Magazine" in 1920, and published further short stories regularly until 1936, when she published her first novel, The Rolling Years. While some regarded the morality of her writing as old-fashioned, she and others attributed it to a hopeful outlook on life.

Works

Novels

*The Rolling Years. New York: Macmillan, 1936.
*Remember the End. New York: Macmillan, 1938.
*The Day Must Dawn. New York: Macmillan, 1942.
*The Bishop's Mantle. New York: Macmillan, 1947.
*The Gown of Glory. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1950.
*The King's Orchard. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1963
*The Flowering. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972.
*The Richlands. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974.
*The Two Bishops. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980.

Juvenile works

*Elijah the Fish-bite. New York: Macmillan, 1940.
*Jed, the Shepherd’s Dog. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1957.
*George. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964.
*The White Lark. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968.

Memoir

* . New York: Macmillan, 1941.

References

ources

* [http://www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu/LitMap/bios/Turnbull__Agnes_Sligh.html|Alan Jalowitz's biographical sketch] of Agnes Turnbull at Pennsylvania Center of the Book

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NAME= Turnbull, Agnes Sligh
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
SHORT DESCRIPTION= American novelist, short story writer
DATE OF BIRTH= October 14,1888
PLACE OF BIRTH= New Alexandria, Pennsylvania, United States
DATE OF DEATH= January 31, 1982
PLACE OF DEATH= Livingston, New Jersey, United States