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Show Girl, 22, Kept Off Relief By WPA, Becomes Novelist By MYRTLE GAYLOKI) Elizabeth Marion, 22-year-old Spokane, Wash., girl took a WPA job so she wouldn't have to ro on relief. J v i This month she sold her first novel to an eastern publisher, and she has a contract for a second. ".Mary, Mourning" The book, which she called "Mary, Mourning," but the title of which will be changed by the publisher, pub-lisher, will come out this spring. From royalties Miss Marlon will pay her way at the University of Chicago. The novel, a story of family life in the Palouse country of the Pacific Pa-cific northwest, deals with material mate-rial which Miss Marion knows first hand. "You can't write about anything you don't know about," she says emphatically. Write in Wee Hours Born on a farm near Spangle, Wash., Miss Marion is the oldest of a family of seven children. Her folks are poor. When she couldn't get work, she stayed at home writing. She writes every night lrom 6:30 to 1 or 2 in the morning. morn-ing. "I'd rather write than eat," she says eagerly. "I've been doing some kind of writing since I was 11. I've written four novels and oodles of short things." Altho she didn't bother to send out her first three novels, 'the fourth sold to the first publisher a Author Marion to whom she sent it. Now she wants to be a Willa Cather or Mary Ellen Chase. But, she admits, ad-mits, that's a long hope. |