Elizabeth Page (novelist)

Elizabeth Merwin Page (1889–1969) was an American novelist, best known for her bestselling 1939 novel The Tree of Liberty, which was adapted into the 1940 film The Howards of Virginia.[1]

Page was born in 1889 and graduated from Vassar College in 1912, and obtained a masters from Columbia in 1914. She wrote four books, including the bestselling Tree of Liberty.

Page married Herbert Taylor Harris in 1954, and died in Oaxaca, Mexico on March 11, 1969.[2]

The Yale University Library holds a collection of her papers as the "Elizabeth Page Harris Papers."[2]

Bibliography
  • Wagons West: A Story of the Oregon Trail (1930)
  • Wild Horses and Gold: From Wyoming to the Yukon (1932)
  • The Tree of Liberty (1939)
  • Wilderness Adventure (1946)

References
  1. Thompson, Ralph (27 February 1939). Books of the Times, The New York Times
  2. Guide to the Elizabeth Page Harris Papers, Yale University Library, Retrieved 22 September 2014



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