Ruth was the daughter of Landreth Hezekiah and Florence Maud (Lord) King who married 09 Nov 1899 in Orange, Essex, NJ. Ruth's only sibling was older sister Helen King Howe. Her father was secretary of the New York Central Railroad and her mother was the founder of the Consumer's League. Ruth was a popular short story writer who graduated from Smith College in 1929. She was one of the first American women to attend Oxford University (one year). She sold her first story to the Saturday Evening Post, in which she attempted to describe what Oxford was like. It was a year of ill health that started her writing in 1935. Summers she spent on an island in Maine, winters in New York and Palm Beach.
Ruth wrote under her maiden name, Ruth Rodney King. She sold short stories and some poems to Collier's, Ladies Home Journal, the New Yorker, the Saturday Evening Post and several other magazines. In 1939, she married Major Benjamin White Norris, a US Marine Corps pilot who was killed during the Battle of Midway in 1942. They were the parents of one child, a daughter, Sara Lord Norris, born in 1941. After the death of Major Norris, Ruth married Kirtland Manley of South Orange, NJ in 1948. Ruth died of a heart attack at Doctors Hospital in Washington, DC on 03 Apr 1973. Her body was cremated and the ashes were buried at Sutton Island, Maine.
Ruth wrote under her maiden name, Ruth Rodney King. She sold short stories and some poems to Collier's, Ladies Home Journal, the New Yorker, the Saturday Evening Post and several other magazines. In 1939, she married Major Benjamin White Norris, a US Marine Corps pilot who was killed during the Battle of Midway in 1942. They were the parents of one child, a daughter, Sara Lord Norris, born in 1941. After the death of Major Norris, Ruth married Kirtland Manley of South Orange, NJ in 1948. Ruth died of a heart attack at Doctors Hospital in Washington, DC on 03 Apr 1973. Her body was cremated and the ashes were buried at Sutton Island, Maine.
Ruth was the daughter of Landreth Hezekiah and Florence Maud (Lord) King who married 09 Nov 1899 in Orange, Essex, NJ. Ruth's only sibling was older sister Helen King Howe. Her father was secretary of the New York Central Railroad and her mother was the founder of the Consumer's League. Ruth was a popular short story writer who graduated from Smith College in 1929. She was one of the first American women to attend Oxford University (one year). She sold her first story to the Saturday Evening Post, in which she attempted to describe what Oxford was like. It was a year of ill health that started her writing in 1935. Summers she spent on an island in Maine, winters in New York and Palm Beach.
Ruth wrote under her maiden name, Ruth Rodney King. She sold short stories and some poems to Collier's, Ladies Home Journal, the New Yorker, the Saturday Evening Post and several other magazines. In 1939, she married Major Benjamin White Norris, a US Marine Corps pilot who was killed during the Battle of Midway in 1942. They were the parents of one child, a daughter, Sara Lord Norris, born in 1941. After the death of Major Norris, Ruth married Kirtland Manley of South Orange, NJ in 1948. Ruth died of a heart attack at Doctors Hospital in Washington, DC on 03 Apr 1973. Her body was cremated and the ashes were buried at Sutton Island, Maine.
Ruth wrote under her maiden name, Ruth Rodney King. She sold short stories and some poems to Collier's, Ladies Home Journal, the New Yorker, the Saturday Evening Post and several other magazines. In 1939, she married Major Benjamin White Norris, a US Marine Corps pilot who was killed during the Battle of Midway in 1942. They were the parents of one child, a daughter, Sara Lord Norris, born in 1941. After the death of Major Norris, Ruth married Kirtland Manley of South Orange, NJ in 1948. Ruth died of a heart attack at Doctors Hospital in Washington, DC on 03 Apr 1973. Her body was cremated and the ashes were buried at Sutton Island, Maine.
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