Grace Stone Coates
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Grace Stone Coates published her first poem in 1921. Originally from Kansas, Coates moved to Montana and taught school from 1904-1921, when she began writing. Her first novel Black Cherries and her first book of poetry Mead and Mangel-Wurzel came out in 1931. Coates edited and wrote for a magazine out of Northwest Montana, Frontier until it stopped circulating in 1939. During the Great Depression, Coates helped write the WPA Federal Writer's Project Montana state guidebook. She moved to a retirement home in Bozeman in 1963, where she wrote a column for the Bozeman Daily Chronicle. The column was named,Hillcrest Highlights, for the Hillcrest Retirement Home she was living in.