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Foster, Jeanne Robert1879-1970Born in the Adirondack Mountains in the town of Johnsburg, N.Y., of English and French stock. Attended the schools of the neighborhood and at the age of sixteen began teaching. Two years later she came to New York, studied at the Stanhope-Wheatcroft Dramatic School, and played upon the stage for one year. Not satisfied with this life, however, she went to Boston, took special courses in the Radcliffe-Harvard Extension and at Boston University, and began writing for the press. Married Matlock Foster and came to New York in 1911 where she became associated with the `Review of Reviews’ as literary editor, holding this position until 1919. Mrs. Foster has published two books of verse, “Wild Apples” and “Neighbors of Yesterday”, both 1916. In the latter she writes, with much narrative skill, of the isolated mountain folk whom she knew in her girlhood.

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