With its proximity to the cultural hub of New York City and its quieter suburban and rural landscapes, Connecticut was fertile ground for artists and writers in the period of Modernist movements between 1913 and 1979. Many of these cultural figures are well known through biographical and critical studies. Creative Places seeks to show how place played a significant role in creative work, and how in turn the artists and writers influenced communities in Connecticut.
Faith Baldwin
Fiction
1893 – 1978
- Biography/Description of Work
Successful author of romance and fiction, first published in 1921 and whose subsequent early works were serialized in magazines, Baldwin published some sixty popular and easy-reading novels and dozens of articles. Some of her fiction was set in Little Oxford, an imaginary location based on Silvermine Village, where she herself lived on an estate she called Fable Farm in New Canaan. One of the original figurehead writers of the Famous Writers School established in Westport in the late 1950s as an off-shoot of the Famous Artists School.
- Sources view
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_Baldwin, http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0049903/, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kristen-houghton/faith-baldwin-mentor_b_921726.html, http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/50011/Faith-Baldwin, http://www.bu.edu/phpbin/archives-cc/app/details.php?id=7376, http://justjanga.blogspot.com/2013/02/my-mothers-books-part-2-faith-baldwin.html, http://sarabengur.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/ElleDecor_ReadablePress_04021.pdf, http://vintagenurseromancenovels.blogspot.com/p/writers.html, http://propertyappraisal.ci.new-canaan.ct.us:8080/showparcel.php?p=9194, http://www.silverminetavern.com/history.htm Faith Baldwin Article - New York Times - 1936-5-13, Faith Baldwin Article - New York Times - 1939-1-15, Faith Baldwin Article - New York Times - 1949-5-1, Faith Baldwin Article - New York Times - 1973-10-25, Faith Baldwin Article - The Hartford Courant - 1931-1-16, Faith Baldwin Article - The Hartford Courant - 1937-4-29, Faith Baldwin Article - The Hartford Cour
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