AKA Olive Chapin Higgins

Born: 10-Jan-1882
Birthplace: Worcester, MA
Died: 24-Mar-1974
Location of death: Brookline, MA
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Female
Religion: Unitarian
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Novelist

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Stella Dallas

Father: Milton Prince Higgins
Mother: Katharine Chapin
Husband: Lewis Isaac Prouty (m. 7-Jan-1907, d. 1951, three daughters, one son)
Daughter: Anne Olivia Prouty (b. 5-Aug-1917, d. 6-Aug-1917 encephalitis)
Daughter: Jane Chapin
Daughter: Olivia
Son: Richard

    High School: Worcester Classical High School, Worcester, MA (1900)
    University: Smith College (1904)
    University: Radcliffe College (graduate study)

    Nervous Breakdown 1894
    Nervous Breakdown 1925

Author of books:
Bobbie, General Manager (1913, novel)
The Fifth Wheel (1916, novel)
The Star in the Window (1918, novel)
Stella Dallas (1923, novel)
Conflict (1927, novel)
The White Fawn (1931, novel)
Lisa Vale (1938, novel)
Now, Voyager (1941, novel)
Home Port (1947, novel)
Fabia (1951, novel)
Pencil Shavings: Memoirs (1961, memoir)

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