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Emma Speed Sampson
American novelist
Emma Speed Sampson | |
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| Born | Emma Speed ()December 1, Louisville, Kentucky |
| Died | May 7, () (aged&#;78) Richmond, Virginia |
| Pen name | Nell Speed, Edith Van Dyne |
| Occupation | Writer (novelist) |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 20th century |
| Genre | Juvenile fiction |
Emma Speed Sampson, (December 1, – May 7, ) was an American author of juvenile fiction and a movie censor.[1]
Biography
Sampson was born on a farm near Louisville, Kentucky.
Emma sampson biography
Her parents were George Keats Speed and Jane U. Ewing.
She studied art at the Art Students League in New York City. She returned to Louisville where she started teaching. She married Henry Aylett Sampson in Together they raised two daughters.[2] She and her husband and her sister, Nell Speed, moved to Richmond, Virginia which remained her permanent home.
Nell, who was a writer of a series of juvenile books featuring a young woman called Molly Brown, was ill with canc