Ruth Cranston Explained

Ruth Cranston
Birth Date:November 14, 1887
Birth Place:Cincinnati, Ohio
Death Date:April 2, 1956
Death Place:New York City
Occupation:Writer
Parents:Earl Cranston and Laura A. (Martin) Cranston

Ruth Cranston (pseudonym, Anne Warwick; November 14, 1887  - April 2, 1956)[1] was an American author and lecturer on religion and other subjects.

Biography

A daughter of Methodist Bishop Earl Cranston, Ruth Cranston was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was taught by tutors in France and Switzerland, and traveled frequently with her family on her father's missionary work. She returned to the United States for college, and graduated from Goucher College in 1908.[2] While in college she wrote three articles on what women can do after graduation, which were published in The Delineator. She then went to travel abroad, first to Vienna, where she penned some articles for American publications.[3]

Turning to writing novels, she proceeded to publish a number of novels under the pseudonym "Anne Warwick",[4] including seven novels by 1915.[5] Her first novel, Compensation (1911), caused a stir in Washington, D.C. social circles.[6] She married William Bleecher Newlin in London in July 1911.[7] Her last Warwick book was published in 1918.

Cranston returned to the United States in 1919, after working for close to a year with the Red Cross, and by this time apparently divorced.[8] She later worked in Geneva for ten years promoting international cooperation movements.

Her books published under her own name, which came in her later years, focused on non-fiction and religious subjects, including a biography of Woodrow Wilson (Cranston had gone to college to Wilson's daughters), a history of major religions (World Faith),[9] and The Miracle of Lourdes (1955) about the Our Lady of Lourdes shrine.

She lived in Sierra Madre, California in her later years, and died at St. Luke's Hospital on April 2, 1956, while on a lecture tour. Her New York Times obituary did not mention her early writings as Anne Warwick.[2]

The Miracle of Lourdes was last reissued, in an expanded version, in 1988.

Selected bibliography

As "Anne Warwick"

External links

Notes and References

  1. Bayles, Allison L. The eternal triangle: the formula for a full life, p. 134 (1988) (states she was born in 1889)
  2. (4 April 1956). Ruth Cranston, Writer, Lecturer, The New York Times
  3. https://books.google.com/books?id=DKpUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA218 Anne Warwick
  4. https://books.google.com/books?id=i1rPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA299 "Anne Warwick", Zeta
  5. (20 March 1915). Seven Novels in Five Busy Years, The Sun (New York), p. 8
  6. (13 May 1912). Bishop's Daughter Is Author, The Washington Herald, p. 2, col. 3
  7. (21 July 1911). Wedded in London - W.B. Newlin Married to Daughter of Bishop Earl Cranston, The New York Times
  8. (1 June 1919). With Authors and Publishers, The New York Times
  9. (22 August 201). Dan Gediman, Ruth Cranston and This I Believe, The Bob Edwards Show (featuring an essay on religious belief by Cranston recorded in the 1950s)
  10. (18 March 1911). "Washington Society Does Not Run After The Newly Rich," Is Answer to the New Book by Bishop Cranston's Daughter, The Washington Times
  11. https://books.google.com/books?id=iMYCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA241 Some Representative Fiction
  12. https://books.google.com/books?id=tVlIAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA131 Chronicle and Comment
  13. (23 March 1912). Anne Warwick Writes Book In Three Weeks, The Sun (New York), p. 11, col. 1.
  14. Garnett, Porter (3 March 1913). The Humanizing of a Perverse Woman, San Francisco Call, p. 7, col. 4
  15. (1 February 1914). Modern Meccas - Anne Warwick's Drama of Five Great Cities, The New York Times

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