Nancy Hale
| Nancy Hale | |
|---|---|
| Born | Anna Westcott Hale May 6, 1908 Boston, MA |
| Died | September 24, 1988 (aged 80) Charlottesville, Virginia |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Taylor Scott Hardin, Charles Wertenbaker, Fredson Bowers |
| Children | Mark Hardin, William Wertenbaker |
Nancy Hale (May 6, 1908 – September 24, 1988) was an American novelist and short-story writer.
Nancy Hale was born in Boston on May 6, 1908. Her parents, Philip Leslie Hale and Lilian Westcott Hale were both painters, and her father was the son of famed speaker and Unitarian minister Edward Everett Hale.
She graduated from the Winsor School in 1926 and studied at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and under her father at the Fenway Studios.
In 1928, she married Taylor Scott Hardin, a socialite and aspiring writer, and they moved to New York City. She got a job at Vogue magazine and was soon working as an assistant editor and writer under the pen-name of "Anne Leslie." She began writing as a free-lancer was well, providing articles and short stories to Scribner's, Harper's, The American Mercury, and Vanity Fair. Her first piece for The New Yorker was published in 1929.
Her first novel, The Young Die Good, was published by Scribner's in 1932. Her editor, Maxwell Perkins, called it "a trifle" about Manhattan life but said that "she meant it to be.". Her second novel, Never Any More, published in 1934, was about the antagonism of three girls whose mothers are friends. By this time, Hale had divorced Hardin, with whom she had one son, Mark.
In 1935, she married the journalist, Charles Wertenbaker and, in 1936, moved with him to Charlottesville, Virginia. That same year, she published her first collection of short stories, The Earliest Dreams. She and Wertenbaker had a son, named William, in 1938, but the couple divorced in 1941.
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