Word: ferner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...teaching at the University of Denver she learned how to keep bees, owned and managed a profitable Iowa apiary for six years. H. L. Mencken bought her early stories for Smart Set, gave her a good sendoff. Grey-haired, robust, 42, she is married to a fellow lowan named Ferner Nuhn, shuttles back & forth between East & West but still writes about home...
...Earlville, la., ran it at a profit. Henry Louis Mencken, then co-editor of Smart Set, bought her first stories, which pleased him considerably. Soon she switched the bees from their hives to her bonnet, where they have since buzzed to good effect. Two years ago she married one Ferner Nuhn of Cedar Falls, la. She lives in Manhattan, where she likes the literary atmosphere. Other books: Country People, The Odyssey of a Nice Girl, Iowa Interiors, The Bonney Family, Cora, The Kramer Girls...