The Washington herald., 1922-06-04
DC. Women
LeadAuthors
Mrs. Geldert Announced
As Writer of Anony-
nous Book.

The literary surprise of the year
comes from the National Head
quarters Of the League of American
Pen Women. when. through the per-
mission of Little. Brown and Com
pany. the authorship of Thy Son
Liveth," published anonymously In
1920, is made known for the first
time. The Information becomes
doubly interesting to the women
writer's of the country, the author
being Mrs. Louis N. Geldert, ma
tional president of the League Of
American Pen Women. unanimousiy
elected to that ONCE at the recent
Pen Women convention in wash
ington.
Mrs. Geldert. a former president
of the Chicago Woman's Press
League, and the author of THE Kiss
of Glory" pipes OF Clovis" "Yama-
Yama Land.9 kids of Many Colors,"
Steps to Nowhere" THE Sup
planter" and more than twenty
other books. has. with her national
executive board. already established
a national policy in the organixa-
ton which has created a stir among
the "IltlHs "Oheu VI AHlcEiCd.
Among the members of the organ
ization who figure prominently at
this time are Mrs. Kathleen Norris,
Mrs. Fannie Heaslip Lea. Mrs. An
ma Katharine Greene (Rohlfs) and
her young competitor In the detec-
tive field, Miss Natalie Sumner Lin
coin. editor of the D. A. r. Maga-
zine and author Of The Three
Strings The Unseen Ear" and
The Cats Paw" Helen Rowland
(Noyes); Mrs. Grace Richmond.
author of the RED Pepper Burns"
series; Mrs. Daniel c. Lothrop MAR
garet Sidney, author of the Five
Little Peppers" Mrs. Annie Fellows
Johnson. author of THE Little
Colonel" series: Mrs. Clara Louise
Burnham: Miss Agnes Repplier;
Mrs. Larz Anderson. author OF
and Pies" and her
books on travel as an ambassadors
wife; Mrs. Frances Parkinson keyes,
author OF Letters from a Senator's
Wife" running for a year in Good
stead" and The Old Grey Home
stead" and The Career of David
Nobel" Mrs. Ada Woodruff Ander-
son; Princess Troubetzkey (Amalie
Rives); Mrs. Forrestine c. Hooker.
author Of THE Long Dim Trail,
prince JAM" etc; Miss Ida Tsrbeil.
Mrs. Cynthia westover Alden: Miss
Sophie Irene Loeb: Princess Can
tacuzene, author of Revolutionary
Days" and My Life" granddaugh-
ter of former President Grant: MRS.
Ida Clyde Clarke. associate editor
Of Pictorial Review; Mrs. Bernie
Babcock, author of The Soul OF
Annie Rutlidge. The Coming OF the
King" Mrs. Esther Darling. author
of "Baldy Of Nome" Mrs. Jane Ao-
hott. author Of The Happy House
and many other books for girls;
Nalbro BARLEY; Mrs. Emily Neweh
Blair, Mrs, Katherine Lee Bates
Mrs. Ralph Waldo Trine. Miss Elsie
Janis. Madame Olga Petrova: Mrs.
Heloise Durant Rose, founder OF
Dante League of America; Mrs.
Martha Feete Crew, president or
the Poetry League of America: Mrs.
Carrie Jacobs-Bond, composer ana
author of The End Of a Perfect
Day;" Mrs. Grace Porterfeld POLK;
Mrs Archibald Freer. Mrs. Ernest
Thompson-Seten: Mrs. Edith Day
Robinson. Miss Angela Morgan. Miss
Lillian whiting. Mrs. Sarah j.
Cooke, Mrs. NJ. NJ. Caldwell, Dr.
Katharine NJ. H. Blackford' pr.
winfred s. Stoner.
Mrs. Geldert has been invited 10
outline the policies of the new ao-
ministration before many CLUBS tnis
summer. the first address 10 De
made at the General Federation OF
wcmen's Clubs convention TO De
held in Chautauqua, n. Y, on June
22. Later Mrs. Geldert Will go 10
Chicago to speak before the I'LL
nois branch of the Leaugue or Amer
ican Pen Women, the llllnois
woman's Press Club and the opera
an Our Language Foundation