Ruth Cranston (pseudonym, Anne Warwick; November 14, 1887 – April 2, 1956) was an American author and lecturer on religion and other subjects.
Biography
A daughter of Methodist Bishop Earl Cranston, Ruth Cranston was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was taught by tutors in France and Switzerland, and traveled frequently with her family on her father's missionary work. She returned to the United States for college, and graduated from Goucher College in 1908. While in college she wrote three articles on what women can do after graduation, which were published in The Delineator. She then went to travel abroad, first to Vienna, where she penned some articles for American publications.
Turning to writing novels, she proceeded to publish a number of novels under the pseudonym "Anne Warwick", The Unknown Woman (1912) Ashes of Incense (1912) (first published anonymously) The Meccas of the World (1913) (Title in England: My Cosmopolitan Year, published anonymously) Victory Law (1914) The Chalk Line (1915) The Unpretenders (1916) The Best People (1918)
References
External links
The Ruth Cranston Papers, 1908-1957, at Berea College
Compensation (1911) (full scan at Google books)