Anne Homer Explained

Anne Homer Doerflinger
Birth Name:	Anne Homer
Birth Date:	15 November 1907
Birth Place:	New Jersey
Death Place:	Morristown Memorial Hospital Morristown, New Jersey
Education:	Smith College
Spouse:	William Main Doerflinger
Parents:	Sidney Homer Louise Dilworth Beatty

Anne Homer Doerflinger (November 15, 1907 – May 16, 1995) was an American writer who is best known for her short works of fiction. Under the name Anne Homer she published more than 100 short stories in magazines like Good Housekeeping, The Ladies Home Journal, Mademoiselle, and The Saturday Evening Post among others.^[1]

Biography

She was born on October 15, 1907, in New Jersey as Anne Homer.

A 1929 graduate of Smith College, she was the daughter of composer Sidney Homer and opera singer Louise Homer. She notably penned a biography on her mother: Louise Homer and the Golden Age of Opera (1974, William Morrow and Company).^[1]

Homer's sister was the author Joy Homer who died in 1946 at the age of 31 after a prolonged illness. Joy was married to editor William Main Doerflinger of E.P. Dutton and Macmillan Publishing, and the couple had one daughter together, Katherine.^[2] Anne took care of her sister and her family through the years illness, and following Joy's death, she became William's second wife.^{[1] [3]} Anne and William had four children of their own together.

She lived in Convent Station, New Jersey. Homer died at the age of 87 of cancer at Morristown Memorial Hospital in Morristown, New Jersey.^[4]

Notes and References

1. Louise and Sidney Homer: a 21st century dual-career couple, circa 1911. Linda Achey Kidwell and Roland E. Kidwell. Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Journal of Management History. 12. 3.
2. Web site: Joy Homer, author, Took Aid To China. Daughter of Musicians, Wife of W.M. Doerflinger, Dies at 31. Ran Japanese Blockade. Ing-John. The New York Times. October 25, 1946.
3. Web site: William M. Doerflinger. Doerflinger, William M. Died on Saturday, December 23, 2000, at Fellowship Village in Basking Ridge, NJ. He was 90. Born in New York City, he was a longtime resident of Convent Station before moving to Fellowship Village ... . December 31, 2000. The New York Times.
4. Web site: Anne Homer Doerflinger. Fiction Writer, 87. Anne Homer Doerflinger, a writer whose stories appeared in numerous magazines, died on Tuesday at Morristown Memorial Hospital in New Jersey. She was 87 and lived in Convent Station, N.J. The cause was cancer, her family said. .... The New York Times. May 21, 1995.