About Lella Warren
Lived 1899 – 1982 (aged 82). Lella Warren was an American novelist and writer.
Lella Warren (March 22, 1899 – March 3, 1982) was a novelist and short story writer who is best known for her historical novel Foundation Stone chronicling the life of Alabama settlers in the 19th century. She was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 1987.
Biography Lee Ella 'Lella' Warren was born in 1899, in Clayton, Alabama, to Lee Ella Underwood and Benjamin Smart Warren, a physician who helped to found the U.S. Public Health Service. Warren's family moved around a good deal during her childhood as her father, then in the Marine Hospital Service, was moved from one posting to another. In 1917, she graduated from Western High School in Washington, D.C. By then her writing was developed enough that her writing teacher sent one of her stories to an editor for Century Magazine, who responded encouragingly.
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Lella Warren was born on 22 March 1899 in Clayton.
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Lella Warren died on 3 March 1982.
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Lella Warren was a novelist and writer.
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