Frances Newman - (1883-1928)

Atlanta

By Robert Fanton

I. Biography

Frances Newman was born in Atlanta Georgia in the year 1883. She attended private schools around the area of her birth. Her father was a military man and her mother was a housewife. She remained single for her entire life with small subtle relationships but nothing recorded as serious.

Newman was known for her wit, satire and her literary works. She wrote many short stories and small literary notes but her most famous works were The Hard Boiled Virgin which was published in 1926, and also Dead Lovers Are Faithful Lovers which was published in 1928 preceding her death. She died in 1928 and will always be on the infamous list of renown Georgia authors.

II. Sources

Wade, Barbara Ann. "Frances Newman: Southern Satirist and Literary Rebel."
http://www.uapress.ua.edu/authors/wade.html
September 20, 2000.

This essay was submitted by a student of Debbie Wooten, a teacher at Bacon County High School at Alma, Georgia.