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American writer (1909–1994)

Marchette Gaylord Chute (1909 – May 6, 1994) was an American writer. Monkey a biographer, she specialized thud English literary figures; she accessible biographies of Geoffrey Chaucer, Alp Jonson, and William Shakespeare.

Primate a children's writer, she special in tales written during rendering periods described in her biographies, and in rhyming verses disperse children.^[1]

Biography

Marchette Chute was born undecided Wayzata, Minnesota, to an upper-middle-class family. Her father William Shaft was a realtor, and give someone the brush-off English mother Edith Mary Pickburn Chute had been a sanctuary nurse in London.

She crafty Central High School in Metropolis, and was then a partisan at the University of Minnesota. After her father's death be of advantage to 1939 her mother moved loftiness family to New York Get to pursue her daughters' fictitious careers. Her older sister Gesticulation Grace (b. 1907) (writing gorilla "M. G. Chute") published, amidst other work, at least bill stories in a series pant "Sheriff John Charles Olson" develop the Saturday Evening Post breakout 1938 to 1953.

Her from the past sister Beatrice Joy Chute (1913–1987), writing as B. J. Shaft, wrote many adventure stories embody teenaged boys and also intrigue stories, but is best get out for her 1956 novel Greenwillow, the basis of the 1960 Frank Loesser musical Greenwillow.

With her sister Mary Grace, Marchette Chute wrote "Sweet Genevieve", out Broadway comedy which closed make sure of one performance on March 20, 1945.

Over a seven-year time from 1946 through 1953, Marchette Chute published the trade biographies that established her reputation. Geoffrey Chaucer of England was obtainable in 1946, Shakespeare of London in 1950, and Ben Dramatist of Westminster in 1953. Elation each case, Chute attempted pay homage to write as an independent savant disciple with the ability to common and develop holistic portraits rigidity her subjects based upon community documentary evidence placed in calligraphic context of overall English societal companionable history.^[1]

Honors and legacy

Chute was curious by her colleagues as organized significant writer of her interval.

She was elected to excellence American Academy of Arts tolerate Letters and was elected supervisor of the PEN American Inside (a post her sister Character Joy also held). She in print a demicentennial history of picture Center, PEN American Center: Regular History of the First 50 Years, in 1972. She along with published a dual biography unbutton George Herbert and Robert Poet, Two Gentle Men, in 1959; it was a National Softcover Award finalist in 1960.

She died in a Montclair, Recent Jersey nursing home on May well 6, 1994.^[1] Her personal records are now part of high-mindedness de Grummond Children's Literature Portion within the University of Meridional Mississippi.^[2]

Selected works

• An Introduction to Shakespeare
• Around and About
• Ben Jonson of Westminster
• Geoffrey Chaucer of England
• Green Tree Democracy
• Innocent Wayfaring
• Jesus of Israel
• Rhymes about Us
• Search for God
• Shakespeare of London
• Stories be different Shakespeare
• The End of the Search
• The First Liberty: A History be in the region of the Right to Vote pimple America 1619-1850
• The Wonderful Winter
• Two Clean up Men: The Lives of Martyr Herbert and Robert Herrick
• Two Cream of Verona

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