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Adeline Lobdell Atwater

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Adeline Lobdell Atwater
Born1887 Edit this on Wikidata
Chicago Edit this on Wikidata
Died1975 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 87–88)
Chicago Edit this on Wikidata
OccupationArt director, writer, suffragist Edit this on Wikidata

Adeline Lobdell (1887 in Chicago, Illinois – 1975 in Chicago), he married Henry Atwater, and the couple had two daughters. The family moved to Washington, D.C., where Adeline became active in the National Women's Party as the representative for Illinois. Following World War I, Lobdell was granted a divorce in Reno, Nevada, and moved to New York City, New York, where she became the art director of the New Gallery. She then became a writer, composing both fiction such as The Marriage of Don Quixote and non-fiction such as Autobiography of an Extrovert. In 1932, Lobdell remarried to Harold C. Pynchon. Her writing career flourished and she garnered attention for her short stories in New York Magazine, New York Herald Tribune, and The Midwest Review of Literature.

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