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Grace Elizabeth King

New Orleans, 1851-1852 - 1932, New Orleans

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found: Wikipedia, November 16, 2015: (Grace Elizabeth King, American author of Louisiana stories, history, and biography; born November 29, 1851, in New Orleans, Louisiana; died January 14, 1932; buried in Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, Louisiana)
found: Knowla.org, KnowLa, Encyclopedia of Louisiana, November 16, 2015: (Grace King, novelist and historian; born November 29, 1852; studied at the Sylvester-Larned Institut and the Institut Cenas in New Orleans; published work in major national magazines such as Harper's, Century, and The Yale Review; her fiction treated the lives of young girls and older women dispossessed by the Civil War; her historical studies focused on the settlement of Louisana, and the development of New Orleans and its notable Creoles, a group she narrowly defiend to exclude Creoles of color; also authored a memoir, Memories of a Southern woman of letters, published after her death)

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