Word: corinna
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author Patten will not tell his age. He was 17 sometime in the 1880's when, at his home in Corinna, Maine, he wrote his first stories, "A Bad Man" and "The Pride of Sandy Flat." A check for $6 for both, from Editor Orville J. Victor of Banner Weekly, put an end to Patten's father's determination, to make Willie a carpenter, and his mother's hope that he would become a minister. In the next ten years Author Gilbert Flatten (he had dropped his first name because people called him Willie) achieved...