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Gertrude Franklin (Horn) Atherton

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From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Date: 20080424
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Gertrude Franklin (Horn) Atherton , 1857-1948, American writer, b. San Francisco. She wrote a series of historical novels about California, which include The Californians (1898), Rezánov (1906), and The Ancestors (1907). Her most popular books are The Conqueror (1902), which is a fictionalized biography of Alexander Hamilton, and the sensational novel Black Oxen (1923), concerning a woman who is rejuvenated by a glandular operation and based on Atherton's own experience of glandular therapy.

Bibliography: See her autobiography The Adventures of a Novelist (1932).



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