Grace Zaring Stone

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Grace Zaring Stone (1891 – February 3, 1991) was an American novelist and short story writer[1]. She is perhaps best known for having three of her novels made into films: The Bitter Tea of General Yen, Winter Meeting, and Escape. She also used the pseudonym of Ethel Vance[1].

[edit] Biography

Grace Zaring Stone was the great-great-granddaughter of Robert Owen[1]. Her mother died in her childhood. She started writing in St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands, where she lived with her husband, a member of the Navy[1]. Later, she moved to Stonington, Connecticut[1].

Mrs Stone used the pseudonym of Ethel Vance to write her 1939 novel Escape, to avoid jeopardising her daughter, who was living in occupied Europe during the Second World War[1][1].

She died in Mystic, Connecticut.

[edit] Bibliography

  • The Heaven and Earth of Dona Elena, 1929
  • The Bitter Tea of General Yen, 1932
  • The Cold Journey, 1934
  • Escape, 1939
  • Reprisal, 1942
  • Winter Meeting, 1946
  • The Secret Thread, 1949
  • The Grotto, 1951
  • Althea, 1962
  • Dear Deadly Cara, 1968

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Grace Zaring Stone, a Novelist Under Two Names, Dies at 100 - New York Times
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