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Darragh Aldrich

Biographical Notes

Date of birth: December 31, 1884, Richmond, Indiana
Date of death: March 31, 1967, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Clara Chapline Thomas Aldrich. Writer and radio commentator. Wrote first complete story at age eight. B.A., University of Minnesota, 1900. An editor of the University of Minnesota paper, The Gopher, and occasional contributor to The Minnesota Daily. After graduation taught the classics at St. Mary's Hall in Faribault, Minnesota, for three years. Became a special reporter and columnist of Quentin's Corner, Minneapolis Tribune, 1906-14; radio commentator and head of Women's Activities, WCCO, Minneapolis, 1941-56. Author of novels, short stories, and articles. Her novel Enchanted Hearts, was adapted for the Broadway stage under the title A Prince There Was, and later made into a movie also entitled A Prince There Was. Wrote under pseudonym Darragh Aldrich.

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Additional Resources

Sources used to prepare this author entry

The following bibliography may include links to Web sites that are no longer operable or have changed location. The sources are shown as they existed in the fall of 1999 when the entries were compiled.
  • Golfer & Sportsman. Mar. 1939, Vol. 23, no.140. Minneapolis: Golfer & Sportsman, Inc., 1939.
  • Howes, Durward, ed. American Women. Los Angeles, Calif: Richard Blank Publishing Co., 1935.
  • Howes, Durward, ed. American Women. Los Angeles, Calif: American Publications Inc., 1939.
  • Minneapolis Star, 31 Mar. 1967, p. 3A.
  • Minneapolis Tribune, 2 Apr. 1967, p. 14B.
  • Minnesota Alumni Weekly. Vol. 35, p. 286-7.
  • Minnesota Authors. St. Paul: Library Division, State Department of Education, 1934.
  • Richards, Carmen. Minnesota Writers. Minneapolis: T. S. Denison, 1961.
  • Richards, Carmen. Minnesota Writes. Minneapolis: Lund Press, 1945.
  • Sarjeant, Charles. The First Forty: The Story of WCCO Radio. Minneapolis: T. S. Denison, 1964.
  • Who's Who Among North American Authors, 1933-35.. Los Angeles, Golden Syndicate Publishing Co., 1935.
  • Who's Who in America: 1934-35. Chicago: A. N. Marquis Company, 1934
  • Who's Who in the Midwest. Chicago: The A. N. Marquis Co., 1949.
  • Who's Who of American Women, p. 27. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1958-59.
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