Background
Fannie Heaslip Lea, the daughter of newspaperman James J. Lea and Margaret Heaslip, was born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Fannie Heaslip Lea, the daughter of newspaperman James J. Lea and Margaret Heaslip, was born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Tulane University.
After attending public schools in New Orleans, she matriculated to H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College in New Orleans, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in 1904, and did graduate work in English at Tulane University in Louisiana for two years after. Her first novel, Quicksands, was published in this year. She continued to write through the birth of a daughter, Anne Worthen.
Lea wrote several plays.
Her first, Round-About, was produced in 1929 by the New York Theatre Assembly. Her papers are housed in the University of Oregon Library in Eugene, Oregon.