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Hope Hale Davis was born on 2 November, 1903 in France, is an American author. Discover Hope Hale Davis's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 100 years old?

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1903

Hope Hale Davis (née Frances Hope Hale; November 2, 1903 – October 2, 2004) was a 20th-century American feminist (or "proto-feminist") and communist, later a writer and writing teacher.

Davis was born Frances Hope Hale on November 2, 1903, in Iowa City, Iowa, the fifth and youngest child of Hal Hale, a school superintendent, and Frances McFarland, a teacher.

Her father died young, and her mother remarried to John Overholt.

When her stepfather died, too, Davis and her mother moved to Washington, D.C.

There, Davis studied at the new Corcoran School of Art and George Washington University, as well as Cincinnati University and the Portland School of Art.

She did not obtain a college degree.

1924

In 1924, Davis became assistant to the Stuart Walker Repertory Company's art director, for whom she painted scenery and designed costumes.

1926

In 1926, she moved to New York City, where she worked in advertising as a secretary at the Frank Presbrey Agency.

There, she wrote copy and sold drawings.

She left to become a freelance writer, publishing stories in magazines such as Collier's, The New Yorker, and Bookman.

1929

In 1929, she became promotion manager for Life magazine.

1931

In 1931, she founded and edited Love Mirror, a women's pulp magazine.

1932

In 1932, Davis married her second husband, British journalist Claud Cockburn.

1933

In February 1933, she moved to Washington, D.C., where she worked on the Consumers' Counsel of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) under Frederic C. Howe.

Her third husband, German economist Karl Brunck, worked for the National Recovery Administration.

She joined the Soviet spy ring called the "Ware Group", as recounted later in her memoir.

1934

In 1934, one group meeting included J. Peters, Lee Pressman, Marion Bachrach, and John Abt.

Other members allegedly included Harold Ware, Charles Kramer, Alger Hiss, Nathaniel Weyl, Laurence Duggan, Harry Dexter White, Abraham George Silverman, Nathan Witt, Julian Wadleigh, Henry Collins, and Victor Perlo.

After Brunck's death, Davis returned to New York City, where she worked as a freelance writer, crafting short stories with underlying Communist themes.

During her years married to Robert Gorham Davis, she edited his work while writing herself for Redbook and Town & Country, and New Leader magazines.

They did not live together and divorced in 1934 when Cockburn purportedly abandoned Davis while she was pregnant.

In 1934, she married German economist and Communist Karl Hermann Brunck, who suffered a breakdown and entered a mental institution for treatment by psychologist Frieda Fromm-Reichmann.

1937

He committed suicide in 1937.

1939

In 1939, she left the Communist Party over the Hitler-Stalin Pact, though she remained a "committed leftist".

1948

Over the same international incident, Whittaker Chambers met with New Dealer Adolf A. Berle and named Davis as a member of the Ware Group, although he did not cite her name during subpoenaed testimony before HUAC on August 3, 1948.

1950

In the 1950s and 1960s, the Davises lived on the Upper West Side of New York City and were friends with Bernard Malamud, Lionel Trilling, and Diana Trilling.

1954

In 1954, she and her husband Robert Gorham Davis spoke to the FBI about both of their participation in the Communist Party of the United States.

She identified Len De Caux and his wife, Herman Brunce, John and Elizabeth Donovan, Harold Ware, Charles Kramer and his wife, John Abt and his wife Jessica Smith Ware Abt and his sister Marion Bachrach, Jacob Golos, Joseph Freeman, and Joe Currant, along with Pressman, Perlo, Silverman, Collins, Witt.

Written in the interview notes the FBI took: "At this time in the interview Mrs. Davis made the statement that despite the great amount of publicity afforded Alger Hiss and his brother, Donald Hiss, in the public press, she as of this interview cannot recall having known these individuals as Communist Party members, nor can she recall hearing from the above named individuals that the Hiss brothers were members of the Communist Party at this time."

1970

In the 1970s, they moved to Connecticut.

1983

In 1983-84 she was a fellow at the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College.

In 1983, they moved to Boston after she received a fellowship from Radcliffe.

1985

In 1985, she received an invitation to remain as a visiting scholar.

She taught a class in writing from 1985 until a month before her death.

Seminar titles included "How to Keep a Journal" and "Autobiography as Detective Story."

Davis briefly married her first husband, vaudeville scenery designer George Patrick Wood.

1998

Their daughter was Claudia Cockburn (died 1998), who married British performer Michael Flanders (died 1975) and had two daughters, journalists Stephanie and Laura Flanders.

That same year, she married fellow Communist, professor, and literary critic Robert Gorham Davis (died 1998), whom she met during a congress of the League of American Writers; the couple had two children, Stephen and Lydia.

2004

Hope Hale Davis died of pneumonia in Boston on October 2, 2004, at age 100.

At her death, the Guardian called her an "American author who defied social conventions with her feminist, leftwing beliefs."