The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-17
Al, ,ABAMA AUTHORS
Timely Review of Writers of Our Own State Who Are
 Wnnino Fame and Earning Dollars by Their Pens
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the life of her section. Dr. Phillips Superintendent of the Public Schools of Birmingham, has book of old le- Eends of Greece told in form suited for the school boy and girl of to-day , The stories are told in popular vein, being first used as lectures by himself, to his scholars. now put into form to be used by many teachers In our schools. Two young authors of Montgomery. Miss 4. .rances Nimmo Green and Miss Dolly Williams Kirk have just out book that Is sure to be wonderously popular: with Spurs of Gold" This is d book of stories of famous knights There will be found in the pages tales of the deeds of Roland and oli- yer. of the Cid. Of Godfrey de Bruil- | lon. Richard Occur de Leon. the Chev- alier Bayard. Sir Philip Sidney.
 These narratives while in a way his | torical studies, are full of life, action and entertainment. They will delight as we'll as carry with them much in' structive information.
 Frances Nlmmo Green was born and reared in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and was educated at the Tuscaloosa Fe- male College. Her father was Thomas Finley Greene, of South Carolina ex- | traction, and her mother Virginia Owen, all of whose family were Vir' ginians
 Miss Greene has followed the pro- lfession of teaching since her seven teenth year, and Is now principal ol the Capitol Hill School at Montgom' l cry.
 She began writing for The Philadel' phia Times the year after she left school. and was Southern correspond ent for that paper for several years Miss Greene has contributed, from tim' to time, short stories, poems, and mis ceIlaneous articles to the current press One of her stories, Light. Mor' Light!," won the second prize in short story contest held by the Sum! South two years ago. Her article ol Robert Burns received the prize offer
 ed by the Alabama Federation o
 Womenrs Clubs for the best club papc
 written during the year 1904.
 Miss Dolly Williams Kirk. joint au
 thor with Miss Frances Nimmo Green of With Spurs of Gold" book o chivalric stories recently publishe'
 by Little Brown & Company of Bos
 ton, Is native Alabamian. She wa
 born in Tuscaloosa, her mother beinj
 Julia owen. daughter of Jndg
 Thomas NJ. owen. and her father George Hamilton Kirk. whose parent
 were both Scotch by birth; The owen are also of Scotch-Wel descent
 though the family has been in Americ
 since early colonial times, beini
 among the first settlers of Virginis
 Miss Kirk's parents moved to Louis
 jana when she was a child. and resid ed there for some years in Vaudeville
 picturesque old town on Lake Pont chartrain: but at length located fl New Orlenas There Miss Kirk wa
 educated and spent her early woman
 hood. After the death of her parents
 she resided with her sister in Bir
 mingham for q short while. the adopted teaching as a profession an , became connected with the publi , schools of Montgomery. She Is now , teacher in the high school of that cftI Miss Kirk has always been devote
 to literary pursuits. but has not at tempted work for publication unti recent years. number of poems an , short articles from her pen have az
 peared in various periodicals. 1903, the Alabama State Federation C wonen's Clubs awarded their annua
 prize to a Shakespearian paper writ , ten by Miss Kirk for the Tintagl III i erary club of Montgomery.
 , Miss Greene is author of a volume , l King Arthur and His Court a boo