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Joan Hume McCracken was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on December 31, 1917, [3] the daughter of Mary Humes and Franklin T. McCracken, a prominent sportswriter at the Philadelphia Public Ledger who was an authority on golf and boxing.
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McCracken, a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, graduated from Newton North High School in Newton, Massachusetts, earned a B.A. and M.A. in English from Boston University, an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa, and an M.S. in Library Science from Drexel University.
Writing as L.A.M. Priestley or L.A.M. Priestley-McCracken, she contributed to journals that ranged from the English suffragist journal The Vote and the more overtly feminist The Irish Citizen, [8] to The Irish Presbyterian and the theosophist journal The Herald of the Star. [9] Some of her articles were collected and published as popular ...
Patricia Marie MacLachlan (née Pritzkau; March 3, 1938 – March 31, 2022) was an American children's writer. She was noted for her novel Sarah, Plain and Tall , which won the 1986 Newbery Medal . Early life
Mary Ann McCracken (1770–1866), Irish social activist and campaigner Mary Elizabeth McCracken (1911–1945), Chinese-born American medical missionary Mary Isabel McCracken (1866—1955), American entomologist, researcher, and teacher
Patricia Bosworth (née Crum, April 24, 1933 – April 2, 2020) was an American journalist, biographer, memoirist, and actress. She was a faculty member of Columbia University’s school of journalism as well as Barnard College, and was a winner of the Front Page Award for her journalistic achievement in writing about the Hollywood Blacklist .
Patricia Roc (born Felicia Miriam Ursula Herold; [1] 7 June 1915 – 30 December 2003) was an English film actress, popular in the Gainsborough melodramas such as Madonna of the Seven Moons (1945) and The Wicked Lady (1945), though she only made one film in Hollywood, Canyon Passage (1946).