Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant

Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant (April 23, 1881 – January 26, 1965) was an American journalist and writer.

Biography Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant was born on April 23, 1881, in Winchester, Massachusetts, to Charles Spencer Sergeant, an executive with the Boston Elevated Railway, and Elizabeth Blake Shepley Sergeant. Her younger sister Katharine Sergeant Angell White was an editor for The New Yorker and wife of E. B. White, author of Charlotte's Web and writer for The New Yorker. Sergeant was also an aunt of Roger Angell, another writer for The New Yorker. She had another sister named Rosamund. She was known to friends and family as Elsie.

Sergeant was educated at Miss Winsor's School (now called The Winsor School) in Boston from 1894 to 1899 and Bryn Mawr College from 1899 to 1903. for the Russell Sage Foundation. When the New Republic was founded in 1914, she became one of its original contributors. In 1916, she published her first book, French Perspectives, a result of her extensive travels to that country as the New Republic 's war correspondent.

On October 19, 1918, she was severely injured when her companion picked up a hand grenade that exploded. That experience resulted in her second book, Shadow-Shapes: Journal of a Wounded Woman, 1920.

She moved to Taos, New Mexico, in 1920, following her doctor's advice. She wrote about the Pueblo Indians and New Mexico itself until the mid-1930s, publishing mostly in the New Republic and the Nation. She spent extensive time in New York City and at the Macdowell Colony. In 1927, she published a collection of profiles about prominent Americans, Fire Under the Andes. Sergeant studied with Carl Jung and Toni Woolf in Zurich from 1929 to 1931. She published her only novel, Short as any Dream, in 1929.

Books

Nonfiction Sergeant, E. S. (1916). French Perspectives. United States: Houghton Mifflin. Sergeant, E. S. (2013). Shadow-Shapes: The Journal of a Wounded Woman, October 1918 – May 1919 – Primary Source Edition. United States: BiblioLife. Sergeant, E. S. (1927). Fire Under the Andes. A Group of North American Portraits, Etc. [Illustrated.].. United States: (n.p.). Sergeant, E. S. (1931). Mr. Justice Holmes Sergeant, E. S. (1953). Willa Cather: A Memoir by Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant. United States: J. B. Lippincott Co. Sergeant, E. S. (1965). Robert Frost: The Trial by Existence. United States: Holt.

Fiction Sergeant, E. S. (1929). Short as Any Dream. United Kingdom: Harper & Brothers.