Background

Edith Agnew was born on October 12, 1897, in Denver, Colorado.

Education

Agnew received her A.B. degree in 1921 from Park College, Parkville, Missouri, and did graduate study at New Mexico Highlands University and Western State College of Colorado.

Career

Edith Agnew began her career as a high school teacher in Delta, Colorado and at Logan Academy, in Logan, Utah. She became an assistant in the children’s department at the New York Public Library, returning to the southwest in 1929, where she was appointed kindergarten and primary teacher at the Agua Negra Mission School in Holman, New Mexico. She returned to New York in 1945, and took the position of writing assistant at the Presbyterian Board of National Missions, being appointed editor of Opening Doors, published by the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education in Philadelphia, in 1950.

Agnew's first book was a collection of poems, The Songs of Marcelino. Her last two books were Sowers Went Forth: The Story of the Presbyterian Missions in New Mexico and Southern Colorado, and Doors.

Achievements

• Edith Agnew is famous for her books, which she wrote mostly for the juvenile market, and four plays

Works

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  • My Alaska Picture Story Book 1948
  • Leo of Alaska 1958
  • Nezbah's Lamb 1959
  • Sandy and Mr Jalopy 1949
  • The Songs of Marcelino 1953
  • The Gray Eyes Family 1952

Connections

Father:

Charles Clinton Agnew

Mother:

Ella Josephine Dunlop Agnew

Sister:

Helen Dunlap Agnew Anderson

Brother:

Donald Charles Agnew

Brother:

Dwight Luther Agnew

References

• Contemporary Authors A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Non-Fiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television, and Other Fields
  2008