Frances Parkinson Keyes (1885–1970)
Author of Dinner at Antoine's
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Christmas gift 5 copies
The Cost of a Best Seller 5 copies
The old gray homestead; Queen Anne's Lace; The career of David Noble;: Three full-length novels 1 copy
Saint Catherine of Siena 1 copy
THE MAKING OF A SAINT 1 copy
The King 1 copy
Career of David Noble 1 copy
Kongelosjen 1 copy
The River Road: Abridged 1 copy
KUNINKAALLINEN AITIO 1 copy
O Jardim de Salomão 1 copy
Three novels 1 copy
Cuando azota la pasion 1 copy
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- Birthdate
- 1885-07-21
- Date of death
- 1970-07-03
- Burial location
- The Oxbow, Newbury, Vermont, USA
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
- Place of death
- New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
- Places of residence
- Washington, D.C., USA
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Newbury, Vermont, USA - Education
- privately educated
- Occupations
- novelist
magazine editor - Short biography
- Frances Parkinson Wheeler split her time in childhood between Boston, Massachusetts, and the village of Newbury, Vermont. She was educated privately and traveled widely throughout Europe. In 1904, at the age of 18, she married Henry Wilder Keyes, a politician who eventually became governor and then U.S. Senator from New Hampshire, and the couple lived on his family estate near Haverhill with their three sons.
After her husband's death in 1938, Frances Parkinson Keyes settled in the French Quarter of New Orleans.
Her career as a writer began with the publication of her first novel, Old Gray Homestead, in 1919. During the 1920s, she wrote a series called "Letters from a Senator's Wife," for Good Housekeeping Magazine, where she served as a contributing editor; the columns were later collected and published in book form. Keyes also wrote about her experiences as a political wife in two memoirs, Capital Kaleidoscope: The Story of a Washington Hostess (1937) and All Flags Flying (published posthumously in 1972), as well as a novel, All That Glitters (1941).
Frances converted to Catholicism and this experience fueled much of her writing on religious subjects, both fiction and nonfiction.
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