Theodora Keogh
| Theodora Keogh | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Theodora Roosevelt June 30, 1919 New York City |
| Died | January 5, 2008 (aged 88) Caldwell County, North Carolina |
| Education | Chapin School |
| Alma mater | Radcliffe College |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Spouse(s) |
Tom Keogh Thomas O’Toole Arthur Alfred Rauchfuss (m. 1980–89) |
| Children | None |
| Parent(s) |
Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt Grace Lockwood |
| Relatives | Roosevelt family |
Theodora Roosevelt Keogh O'Toole Rauchfuss (June 30, 1919 – January 5, 2008) was an American novelist writing under her first married name, Theodora Keogh, in the 1950s and 1960s.
Theodora Roosevelt was born on June 30, 1919 in New York City, the granddaughter of United States President Theodore Roosevelt. She was the eldest of three daughters born to Grace Lockwood and Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt’s third son. Archie Roosevelt served in the Army in World War II and received the Silver Star. He later was chairman of Roosevelt & Cross, a Wall Street investment firm. Theodora’s mother was Grace Lockwood, daughter of Thomas Lockwood and Emmeline Stackpole of Boston. In her later life, Theodora played down her Roosevelt connections as she wanted her writings and her talents to be judged on their own merits.
Theodora was brought up on the Upper East Side of New York, near the East River, and in the country at Cold Spring Harbor near Oyster Bay. She attended the Chapin School and finished her education at Countess Montgelas’s in Munich, Germany. She graduated from Radcliffe College.
After finishing her education in Germany, she was briefly a debutante in New York, in 1937, and then began her professional life as a dancer in South America and in Canada. In 1945, she gave up dancing when she married Tom Keogh, a costumer, and moved to Paris. In France, Keogh designed for the theater and the ballet and worked as an illustrator for Vogue magazine from 1947 to 1951. He designed costumes for such movies as “The Pirate” (1948) with Judy Garland and “Daddy Long Legs” (1955) with Leslie Caron. Through her friendships in Paris, she became connected with writers and editors for the Paris Review, including George Plimpton and Peter Matthiessen, co-founders of the Review; Scottish novelist Alexander Trocchi; the poet Christopher Logue; and Alabama poet and screenwriter Eugene Walter.
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