Author, Social Reformer. She is best known for her poetry, and novels, most notably, her most famous work, "...And Ladies Of The Club" (1982). The 1,344 page novel which was based on four generations in a fictional Ohio town relates in detail what happens to the families of the town's literary ladies club, spanning from the Civil War in the 1860s to the Great Depression in the 1930s. The work which became a best-seller in 1984, was published when Santmyer was 88 years old, almost blind, and in a wheelchair. Born in Cincinnati, but raised in Xenia, Ohio, she studied at Oxford University and at Wellesley College, where she later taught English and became interested in the fight for women's rights. During the 1930s, she moved back to Ohio and was named Dean of Women and the head of Cedarville University's English Department. She also served in different posts for women suffragette committees, and as a reference librarian at the Dayton and Montgomery County Library until retiring in 1959, to promote more time to her writing and to travel. Among her other works are, "Herbs And Apples" (1925), "The Fierce Dispute" (1929), "Ohio Town" (1962), and "Farewell, Summer" (1988), which was released after her death. She was posthumously inducted into the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame in 1996.
Author, Social Reformer. She is best known for her poetry, and novels, most notably, her most famous work, "...And Ladies Of The Club" (1982). The 1,344 page novel which was based on four generations in a fictional Ohio town relates in detail what happens to the families of the town's literary ladies club, spanning from the Civil War in the 1860s to the Great Depression in the 1930s. The work which became a best-seller in 1984, was published when Santmyer was 88 years old, almost blind, and in a wheelchair. Born in Cincinnati, but raised in Xenia, Ohio, she studied at Oxford University and at Wellesley College, where she later taught English and became interested in the fight for women's rights. During the 1930s, she moved back to Ohio and was named Dean of Women and the head of Cedarville University's English Department. She also served in different posts for women suffragette committees, and as a reference librarian at the Dayton and Montgomery County Library until retiring in 1959, to promote more time to her writing and to travel. Among her other works are, "Herbs And Apples" (1925), "The Fierce Dispute" (1929), "Ohio Town" (1962), and "Farewell, Summer" (1988), which was released after her death. She was posthumously inducted into the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame in 1996.
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