Nancy Hale Death
Nancy passed away on September 24, 1988 at the age of 80 in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
When did Nancy Hale die?
September 24, 1988How old was Nancy Hale when died?
80Where did Nancy Hale die? What was the location of death?
Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Nancy Hale Birthday and Date of Death
Nancy Hale was born on May 6, 1908 and died on September 24, 1988. Nancy was 80 years old at the time of death.
Birthday: May 6, 1908
Date of Death: September 24, 1988
Age at Death: 80
Nancy Hale - Biography
Nancy Hale was an American novelist and short-story writer. She received the O. Henry Award, a Benjamin Franklin magazine award, and the Henry H. Bellaman Foundation Award for fiction.
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 as 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.
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.
In 1942, Hale married Fredson Bowers, a professor of English at the University of Virginia, and the couple stayed together until Hale's death over 45 years later. In the same year, she published her best-selling book, The Prodigal Women, also about three women—two sisters from the South and their friend from New England. Reviewing the book in the New York Times, Orville Prescott wrote, "Nancy Hale's clever short stories long have been one of the star attractions in The New Yorker" and that her "knowledge of the inner workings of her fellow-women's minds is almost appalling." At over 700 pages, it was by far her longest work, and its publication followed by the longest interruption to Hale's writing career, resulting from an emotional breakdown. She would later publish a collection of stories, Heaven and Hardpan Farm (1957), based in part on her experience of recovery and psychiatric treatment.
