Alice Tisdale Hobart

Novelist, Author

1882 – 1967

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Who was Alice Tisdale Hobart?

Alice Tisdale Hobart born Alice Nourse in Lockport, New York, was an American novelist. Her most famous book, Oil for the Lamps of China, which was also made into a film, drew heavily on her experiences as the wife of an American oil executive in China amid the turmoil of the overthrow of the Manchu Dynasty in 1912.

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Born
Jan 28, 1882
Lockport
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • University of Chicago
Died
Mar 14, 1967

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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