Frances Noyes Hart
American writer (1890-1943)
Frances Newbold Noyes Hart (August 1890 – October 25, 1943) was an American writer whose short stories were published in Scribner's magazine, the Saturday Evening Post, and the Ladies' Home Journal.
Biography
She was born as Frances Newbold Noyes on August 10, 1890 to Frank Brett Noyes and Janet Thurston Newbold. During World War I, she served as a translator with the Navy and as a canteen worker in France (see her book My AEF: A Hail and Farewell). She married lawyer Edward H. Hart in 1921. She died in 1943.
In 1948, Noyes' book The Bellamy Trial won the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière International Prize, the most prestigious award for crime and detective fiction in France.
Publications
Mark (1913)
My A.E.F.--A Hail and Farewell (1920)
"Contact" – Pictorial Review, December 1920 (second prize, O Henry Award, 1920). Repr.
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