Born in New York City, 1885. Educated in New York private schools and lived much abroad. In 1918, with her twin sister, she went into Red Cross Canteen work and was stationed at Chalons. As a result of depression due to nerve strain, both sisters committed suicide by jumping overboard from the steamer on which they were coming home. For their War service the French Government later awarded them the Croix de Guerre. Miss Cromwell's _Poems_ in 1919 divided with Mr. Neihardt's (q.v.) _Song of Three Friends_ the annual prize of the Poetry Society of America. BIBLIOGRAPHY Gates of Utterance. 1915. Poems. 1919. STUDIES AND REVIEWS Ath. 1920, 1: 289. Bookm. 51 ('20): 216. Dial, 68 ('20): 534. Lond. Times, April 15, 1920: 243. New Repub. 18 ('19): 189; 22 ('20): 65. Poetry, 13 ('19): 326; 16 ('20): 105. +Rachel Crothers+--dramatist. Born at Bloomington, Illinois. Graduate of the Illinois State Normal School, Normal, Illinois, 1892. Miss Crothers directs her plays and sometimes acts in them. BIBLIOGRAPHY Criss Cross. 1904. The Rector. 1906. A Man's World. 1915. The Three of Us. 1916. The Herfords. (Quinn, _Representative American Plays_, under the title _He and She_, 1917.) For bibliography of unpublished plays, cf. _Cambridge_, III (IV), 765. STUDIES AND REVIEWS Eaton, W.P. At the New Theatre. 1910. Moses. New Repub. 9 ('16): 217. Touchstone, 4 ('18): 25 (portrait). World Today, 15 ('08): 729 (portrait). See also _Book Review Digest_, 1915. +Samuel McChord Crothers+--essayist. Born at Oswego, Illinois, 1857. A.B., Wittenberg College, 1873, Princeton, 1874. Studied at Union Theological Seminary, 1874-7, and at Harvard Divinity School, 1881-2. Higher honorary degrees. Ordained Presbyterian minister, 1877. Pastorates in Nevada and California. Became a Unitarian, 1882. Pastor in Brattleboro, Vermont, 1882-6; in St. Paul, Minnesota, 1886-94; and of the First Church, Cambridge, since 1894. Preacher to Harvard University. Dr. Crothers's essays are rich with suave and scholarly humor, and are written in a style suggestive of Lamb's. BIBLIOGRAPHY The Gentle Reader. 1903. The Understanding Heart. 1903. The Pardoner's Wallet. 1905. The Endless Life. 1905. By the Chrismas Fire. 1908. Oliver Wendell Holmes and His Fellow Boarders. 1909. Among Friends. 1910. Humanly Speaking. 1912. Three Lords of Destiny. 1913. Meditations on Votes for Women. 1914. The Pleasures of an Absentee Landlord. 1916. The Dame School of Experience. 1920. STUDIES AND REVIEWS Pattee. Bookm. 32 ('11): 631. Critic, 48 ('06): 200 (portrait). Cur. Op. 63 ('17): 406 (portrait). Outlook, 102 ('12): 645 (portrait), 648. So. Atlan. Q. 8 ('09): 150. +James Oliver Curwood+ (Michigan, 1878)--novelist. His material deals with primitive life in Canada. For bibliography, see _Who's Who in America_. +Thomas Augustine Daly+--poet.