Ruth Suckow (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Ruth Suckow (SEW-koh) was the grandchild of German immigrants on both sides of her family. Her father was a liberal Congregational minister whose work took his family to a number of Iowa communities during his daughter’s childhood; at that time western Iowa was but recently settled.
After high school Suckow spent three years at Grinnell College and one year in Boston at the Curry Dramatic School. She received her A.B. degree in 1917 from the University of Denver. While in Colorado she learned beekeeping so as to have a way of earning a living, and after graduation from college...
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