Agnes Sligh Turnbull Quotes
Learn to drink the cup of life as it comes.
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Birth: | 14th October, 1888 |
Death: | 31st January, 1982 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Author, Novelist |
Agnes Sligh Turnbull was a bestselling American writer, most noted for her works of historical fiction based in her native Western Pennsylvania. Her parents were Alexander Halliday Sligh, an immigrant from Scotland, and Lucinda Hannah McConnell, also of Scottish descent. She attended the village school, and went on to boarding school before enrolling at the Teachers College at what is now called Indiana University of Pennsylvania, from which she graduated Phi Beta Kappa.
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