Complex sentence: Harriet Theresa Comstock was an American novelist and author of children's books, born in 1860 in Nichols, New York, and educated in Plainfield, New Jersey.
Split into simpler sentences: Harriet Theresa Comstock was an American novelist and author of children's books. She was born in 1860 in Nichols, New York, and educated in Plainfield, New Jersey.