Esther Louise Forbes was an American novelist, historian and children's writer who received the Pulitzer Prize and the Newbery Medal. Esther Louise Forbes was born to William Trowbridge and Harriette Merrifield Forbes on June 28, 1891 in Westborough, Massachusetts. She moved with her family to Worcester, Massachusetts in 1898. She attended Bancroft School in Worcester, and, from 1909 to 1912, she attended Bradford Academy, a junior college in Bradford, Massachusetts. In 1916, she joined her older sisters Cornelia and Katherine in Madison, Wisconsin, where Cornelia was in graduate school and... Katharine was teaching. During which time she attended the classes at University of Wisconsin. While in Wisconsin, she joined the editorial board of the Wisconsin Literary Magazine. In 1919, she returned to Worcester and in late December began working for the editorial department of Houghton Mifflin Company in Boston. From 1924 to 1926 she wrote feature articles for the Boston Evening Transcript. She married Albert L. Hoskins, Jr., an attorney, on January 14, 1926 and left Houghton Mifflin. The couple moved to New York City.
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