Author: Frances Long
Born: 25 September 1920
Died: 19 December 2004
Bio: Frances Edith Scott was born in Shanghai, China, the daughter of a United States consular official. She was educated at the Shanghai American School, Cheltenham Ladies College, England, Glendale Junior College, and the American University. In 1942, During World War II, she was briefly interned in the camp of Santo Tomas in Manila, the Philippines. In 1943 she was released and repatriated and sailed to the U.S. on the S.S. Gripsholm. In 1943 she published a memoir, Half A World Away, about her internment. She also became a model and a feature writer for the Associated Press

In 1946 she married Charles Frederick Scott, and had two children. She worked for the preservation of conservation land and of historic sites in her hometown of Ridgefield, Connecticut. Her husband died in 1989, and she died in 2004.