Barrett Willoughby

Barrett Willoughby (May 18, 1901 – July 29, 1959),[1] a.k.a. Florance Barrett, was a best-selling novelist who wrote works of romantic fiction and nonfiction from the 1920s through the 1940s. Her writing was mainly mostly set in Alaska, where she spent many years. Some of her works were made into movies.

Florance Barrett Willoughby
Born(1901-05-18)May 18, 1901
District of Alaska, United States
DiedJuly 29, 1959(1959-07-29) (aged 58)
Berkeley, California
Pen nameBarrett Willoughby
OccupationWriter (novelist)
NationalityAmerican
Period20th century
Genrefiction

Bibliography

  • Where the Sun Swings North (1922)
  • The Devil Drum (1925)[2][3]
  • Rocking Moon (1925)
  • Gentlemen Unafraid (1926)
  • The Trail Eater (1929)
  • Sitka, Portal to Romance (1930)
  • Spawn of the North (1932)
  • Alaskans All (1933)
  • River House (1936)
  • Alaska Holiday (1940)
  • The Golden Totem, a novel of modern Alaska (1945)

Filmography

  • Rocking Moon (*a movie was made in 1926 Rocking Moon)
  • Spawn of the North

References

  1. Library of Congress Card Catalogue
  2. O'Brien, Edward J. (1926). The Best Short Stories of 1925 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story. Boston: Small, Maynard & co. p. 287.
  3. Willoughby, Barrett (1925). "The Devil-Drum". The Century Magazine. pp. 393–408.

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