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Show Author leaves for Spain after visit, work, study stay here Virginia E. Sorensen, well-known well-known author, who has spent the past several months in Springville, is leaving next week, for Gibralter, Spain. She has spent the past several months at the home of her father, C. E. Eggentsen, here. Enroute, she plans to deliver to the publisher, a new book of short stories, on which she has been working, entitled, "First Loves, - Stories from a Mormon Girlhood". She plans to stay in Gibal-ter Gibal-ter until early September, when she is scheduled to go to Morocco, Mor-occo, North Africa and then to Iran where she is a delegate dele-gate to the international P.E.-N. P.E.-N. congress representing the New York Center of which she is a member. She will be in Iran about two weeks. expected to be published next month. And just to take up a bit of spare time, she recently wrote an article for This Week, magazine mag-azine section of the Tribune, published in New York and had the distinction of having a member of the staff come to Springville from the eastern city a short time ago, tq take a photograph of her to use with the article. It is scheduled sched-uled to appear in February. Friends here will watch with interest for the article inspired by a slogan which had graced the kitchen wall in the Eggert-sen Eggert-sen home for a number of years. It will also represent a comparitively new phase of writing by the author, who until recently has concentrated her efforts mostly on books. Future plans will take her to Denmark and other Scan-danavian Scan-danavian countries where she will work on a book for Doubleday Pub. Co., which is publishing a series titled "Your Ancestors." Mrs. Soren-sen's Soren-sen's book will be on Scanda-navians Scanda-navians in America. The assignment as-signment covers two years. As part of her busy schedule, sched-ule, she has also written a new story for the New Yorker entitled, "The Face," which is |