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"Alice James Books was founded as a co-operative press in Cambridge, MA in 1973 by five women and two men: Patricia Cumming, Marjorie Fletcher, Lee Rudolph, Ron Schreiber, Betsy Sholl, Cornelia Veenendaal, and Jean Pedrick. The intent of this company was to provide women with a greater representation in literature and involve the writer in the ...
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Gilbert Patten was born in Corinna, Maine in 1866. His father, a carpenter, and his mother were deeply religious pacifists.They were Seventh Day Adventists. [2] He entered Corinna Union Academy at fourteen, but when his father threatened that he would be put to work if he did not improve at school, Patten ran away to Biddeford, Maine where he worked in a machine shop.
Jane Weinberger acknowledged her husband's contributions in the author's notes for a 1986 book about charitable fundraising, Please Buy My Violets. [1] Weinberger founded the publishing company Windswept House Publishers in 1984. The publishing house was named for the Weinberger family home located in Somesville, Maine on Mount Desert Island. [1]
Kenneth Lewis Roberts (December 8, 1885 – July 21, 1957) was an American writer of historical novels.He worked first as a journalist, becoming nationally known for his work with the Saturday Evening Post from 1919 to 1928, and then as a popular novelist.
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Cornelia Dow (1842–1905), philanthropist, temperance activist; born and died in Portland, Maine; Sarah E. Fuller (1838-1913), national president, Woman's Relief Corps; born in Portland, Maine; Nathaniel Gordon, only American slave trader to be tried, convicted, and executed under the Piracy Law of 1820 "for being engaged in the Slave Trade"