Book of the Week #43

Also the Hills by Francis Parkinson Keyes (Julian Messner, Inc., 1943)

Set in a village in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, probably based on North Haverhill, this is one of over 50 novels written by Francis Parkinson Wheeler Keyes (7/21/1885 - 7/3/1970). Keyes was married to U. S. Senator and Governor of New Hampshire, Henry Wilder Keyes. She published her first novel in 1919 and for over a decade she wrote a monthly column for Good Housekeeping called "Letters from a Senator’s Wife" and from 1923 to 1936 was a contributing editor. She is probably best known for the novel Dinner at Antoine's which is set in New Orleans where she lived for many years in what is now known as the Beauregard-Keyes House. She is buried in Newbury, Vermont which was the home of her maternal grandparents.

Ms. Keyes correspondence, much of it with Eleanor Roosevelt, is held by the New York State Library.