Adele Garrison
Adele Garrison was the nom de plume of Nana Springer White, an American writer. Her daily newspaper column, a serial story called Revelations of a Wife, ran in multiple American newspapers from 1915 until the Depression.
Nana Springer White was born in Clinton Junction, Wisconsin. Her career included time as a schoolteacher in Milwaukee. She later worked as an editor for the Milwaukee Sentinel and then a reporter and writer for the Chicago Examiner and the Chicago American. She had one son and one daughter.
Revelations of a Wife told the story of the marital ups and downs of Margaret "Madge" Graham, an independent-minded former schoolteacher, and her husband Dicky, an artist. At the height of the story's popularity, it had one million regular readers.
References
- 3,000,000 Words, Time magazine, Monday, Mar. 12, 1928
- Undated Wisconsin State Journal article
- Works by Adele Garrison at Project Gutenberg
- Revelations of a Wife: the Story of a Honeymoon (columns from 1915 to 1917)
External links
- Works by Adele Garrison at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Adele Garrison at Internet Archive
- Works by Adele Garrison at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
