Lella Warren

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.