Grace Steele Woodward

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Grace Steele Woodward
Born(1899-09-14)September 14, 1899
Joplin, Missouri, U.S.
DiedDecember 18, 1987(1987-12-18) (aged 88)
Oklahoma?
OccupationAuthor and playwright
NationalityFrench
Alma materUniversity of Missouri
University of Oklahoma
Teachers College at Columbia University
GenreNon-fiction history
SpouseGuy Woodward

Grace Steele Woodward (September 14, 1899 – December 18, 1987) was an American writer and historian known for non-fiction books.

Biography

Early life and education

Grace Steele was born on September 14, 1899, in Joplin, Missouri.[1] Her family moved to Webb City, Missouri, where she graduated from Webb City High School in 1917.[2][3]

Woodward attended the University of Missouri, the University of Oklahoma, and Teachers College at Columbia University in New York.[2][4]

Career

Steele wanted to be an actress and she worked as a professional storyteller.[5]

She married Guy Hendon Woodward, an attorney, in 1920; she had children before she began her writing career with a course at the University of Tulsa.[5][1] Her stories appeared in Parents, Forecast, and Holland's Magazine. Sometimes she wrote under the pseudonym Marian Doane to protect the privacy of her children.[2]

Her first book, The Man Who Conquered Pain (1962) was about William T.G. Morton, the dentist who promoted the user of ether.[2] Her second book, The Cherokees (1963) was a history of the Cherokee tribe and it received widespread acclaim.[2][5] Her third book, published in 1969, was a biography of Pocahontas. It won first prize from the Oklahoma State Writers.[1] Her fourth book, The Secrets of Sherwood Forest, was co-authored with her husband and published in 1973; it covered the drilling of oil in Sherwood Forest during World War II.[2]

She lived in Tulsa.[4]

Personal life, death, and legacy

Woodward was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 1968.[4] She was a member of .[1]

Grace Steele Woodward died on December 18, 1987.[2] Her husband, Guy Woodward, had died in 1979.[5]

Works

References

  1. ^ a b c d Scanlon, Jennifer; Cosner, Shaaron (1996). American Women Historians, 1700s-1990s: A Biographical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-29664-2.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Caldwell, Bill (2023-02-24). "Amateur historian Grace Woodward grew up in Webb City". Joplin Globe. Retrieved 2023-05-30.
  3. ^ "Hall of Fame / 2008". Webb City School District. Retrieved 2023-05-30.
  4. ^ a b c "Woodward, Grace Steele | 1968". Oklahoma Hall of Fame. Retrieved 2023-05-30.
  5. ^ a b c d "Obituary for Grace Steele Woodward". Tulsa World. 1987-12-19. p. 33. Retrieved 2023-05-30.
  6. ^ "A Remarkable Indian Nation's Story". Daily Press. 1967-04-30. p. 75. Retrieved 2023-05-30.
  7. ^ "The Best-Kept Secret". Tulsa World. 1974-01-13. p. 107. Retrieved 2023-05-30.

External links

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