Eleanor Talbot Kinkead, also known as Mrs. Thompson Short, was a writer in the United States. Several of her works were made into films including Captain of His Soul adapted by Lillian Ducey from her magazine story "Shackles", The Lost Sermon based on one of her stories, and Rosemary, That's for Remembrance.

She was born in Kentucky. William B. Kinkead, a judge, was her father. Her sister was a poet. She was the great-granddaughter of Isaac Shelby, Kentucky's first and fifth governor, and his estate featured in her work.[1]

She wrote the novel Florida Alexander, a Kentucky Girl.[2]

Bibliography

  • Florida Alexander, a Kentucky Girl (1898)
  • The Invisible Bond (1906)
  • The Courage of Blackburn Blair (1907)
  • The Spoils of the Strong (1920)[3]
  • Young Greer of Kentucky[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Current Literature". Current Literature Publishing Company. June 3, 1896 – via Google Books.
  2. ↑ Kinkead, Eleanor Talbot (1898). "Florida Alexander, a Kentucky Girl". A.C. McClurg. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
  3. ↑ Smith, Geoffrey D. (August 13, 1997). American Fiction, 1901-1925: A Bibliography. Cambridge University Press. p. 376 – via Internet Archive. Eleanor Talbot Kinkead.
  4. ↑ Herringshaw, Thomas William (June 3, 1914). Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States; Illustrated with Three Thousand Vignette Portraits ... American Publishers' Association. p. 424 – via Internet Archive. eleanor talbot kinkead Herringshaw's.


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