Writer Dead
The novelist, Frances Parkinson Keyes, who wrote about 50 books, died in New Orleans, Louisiana, reently. She was 84.
The prize-winning writer, whose better known books include "The Heritage,” “Blue Camellia," and “Also the Hills” died in her Frenchquarter home from a heart ailment
Her book, "Dinner at Antoine’s” made famous the New Orleans restaurant, Antoine’s, and it became one of the city’s tourist attractions. Mrs Keyes was the widow of Henry Wilder Keyes, a former Governor of New Hampshire and a United States Senator when he died in 1938.
A native of Charlottsville, Virginia, She lived in Louisiana most of her life and drew on the old-world heritage of the state for many of her novels. She held a doctor of literature degree from Bates College, George Washington University. She wrote her first book, “The Old Grey Homestead," in 1918, and thereafter produced an average of a book a year for the rest of her life.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32359, 27 July 1970, Page 2
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