Complex sentence: Young's next project was to be a biography of legendary Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley, Ruas in Fuchs, p82 the creator of "Little Orphant Annie", but she began to focus on Riley's friendship with Eugene V. Debs.
Split into simpler sentences: Young's next project was to be a biography of Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley, Ruas in Fuchs, p82 the creator of "Little Orphant Annie". She began to focus on Riley's friendship with Eugene V. Debs.