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Margaret Ayer Barnes

マーガレット・エア・バーンズ

Māgaretto Eā Bānzu

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1886-04-08 （Chicago, Illinois）
Died
1967-10-25 （Cambridge, Massachusetts） age 81
Nationality
United States
Languages
English
Residence History
Chicago, Illinois → Cambridge, Massachusetts

Career

Occupations
playwright, novelist, short-story writer
Active Years
1926-1938
Affiliations
Bryn Mawr College alumnae director
Influenced By
Edward Sheldon, Edith Wharton

Education

Bryn Mawr College
Degree: A.B.
Year of Graduation: 1907
Country: United States
Oglethorpe University
Degree: Doctor of Letters
Year of Graduation: 1936
Country: United States
honorary degree

Awards

Pulitzer Prize for the Novel
1931
Work: Years of Grace
Category: Novel
Organization: Columbia University
Result: Winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Years of Grace

1930 novel

A novel about the life of an upper-class Chicago woman spanning years of grace, love, and family.

marriagefamilyupper class society

Bibliography

  • The Age of Innocence (1928, play)
  • Jenny (1929, play)
  • Dishonored Lady (1930, play)
  • Prevailing Winds (1928, short stories)
  • Years of Grace (1930)
  • Westward Passage (1931)
  • Within This Present (1933)
  • Edna, His Wife (1935)
  • Wisdom's Gate (1938)

Adaptations

  • The Age of Innocence (1934 film)
  • Dishonored Lady (1947 film)
  • Westward Passage (1932 film)

Health

  • broken back
    1926
    Traffic accident that led her to start writing.

Legacy

Known as a Pulitzer Prize-winning author of novels and Broadway plays. Collection at Bryn Mawr College library.

Archives

  • Bryn Mawr College Library

Trivia

  • Began writing after breaking her back in a 1926 car accident.
  • Mother of architect Edward Larrabee Barnes.
  • Sister was suffragette and author Janet Ayer Fairbank.