Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-11-10 | Page 4 | Simple Tale of Frontier Woman Wins Book Prize

Sl Simple JT Tale l of of Fl Frontier Woman W ian man Wins Wis Book t Prize Gra Grandmother Browns Brown's trU Hun dred died Y Years ears Full of Heart kart I Interest st t I Most prize winning biographies revolve about about boUl t famous The Thc ordinary to Napoleon Napoleon Napo Napo- le leon n Grant Beethoven DI m l Leonardo these Leonardo names familiar to th the thc Jl lid even oven opens the book assure his hlf hiscar car earnest est attention In advance The Judges in the tho recent Atlantic Monthly Monthly biography contest con coi- test however 1 had tho thu d d daring t to gi lh their lr lo to-tho to tho author author of a aul a ul biography ut abOut a. a a woman w nian who ho was obscure a. a 3 a who whose t sole claim to fume on tb the tho surface m face of ot things at t any r rate ld teJa lay in the years f fact c. c that she hc managed to Hv i 1130 Thus we have bavO Grandmother Browns Brown's Hundred Ye Years rs by by Harriet lIar Har riet Connor Connol Brawn Braw u as a tho the Atlantic PrU Biography and and- t if Ir ever a att tt biography was deserving les of t a wide reading this one is 15 Ik It Grandmother Browns Brown's Hundred Ye Tears r 1 Is the simple Dimple unadorned tale tae of ot a a woman who was Wa born on the Iho Ohio frontier in 1827 1827 moved to Iov Iowa Ioa as a 8 n oung young housewife before bolc the Civil chit war ivar and lived Jn In 11 that that state through the thc year ear it elt It has no no literary embellishments Its Is c central character r vas was was' ft an uterI utterly ordinary woman woran Yet the the- book bool lo Lo to my notion noton is one ono of of ot the finest to b be l published h In iii this country in recent years For or Grandmother Browns Brown's Brow ns story storys Is 18 s more than the stor story of a. a u kindly centenarian It Is la Iho thu story of t all ad a humanity The Tho sufferings the its as- s- s the sorrows a and d t tho thu de defeats defeats de- de feats teats of or this this- pioneers daughter were wel the sufferings aspirations tons BorroWS sorrows and defeats eelS of ot all al of or us To red read Browns Brown's story storys Is 18 s t to review thc tragic co cour cour courageous r- r ageous end endeavor geo s vor magnificent story to of 0 human haman Amb Ambassador harles G. G Dawes In Ina Ina a a. a foreword calls th the book an jan epic of ot Am American life la In n tho early arly and d later ater days It ItIs ls Is all al of of that But ButIl Butis Il IlIs t. t Is something more It lt I I an n ex- ex x- x in life an an n experience that changes hanes and uplifts ts the he reader eader as a as a great greot symphony By all all' al' al means meas read this book Gr Grandmother Browns Brown's Hundred Yc Years rs is published d' d by Little Brown Co I