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Nilla Cram Cook was born on 21 December, 1908 in Davenport, Iowa, US, is an American writer. Discover Nilla Cram Cook'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 73 years old?
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| Occupation |
Writer, translator, linguist, arts patron |
| Age |
73 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Sagittarius |
| Born |
21 December 1908 |
| Birthday |
21 December |
| Birthplace |
Davenport, Iowa, US |
| Date of death |
11 October, 1982 |
| Died Place |
Neunkirchen, Austria |
| Nationality |
United States
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Nilla Cram Cook Height, Weight & Measurements
At 73 years old, Nilla Cram Cook height not available right now. We will update Nilla Cram Cook's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible.
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Dating & Relationship status
She is currently single. She is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about She's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, She has no children.
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| Parents |
George Cram Cook |
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Nilla Cram Cook Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Nilla Cram Cook worth at the age of 73 years old? Nilla Cram Cook’s income source is mostly from being a successful writer. She is from United States. We have estimated Nilla Cram Cook's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
| Salary in 2024 |
Under Review |
| Net Worth in 2023 |
Pending |
| Salary in 2023 |
Under Review |
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Not Available |
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| Source of Income |
writer |
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Timeline
Nilla Cram Cook (December 21, 1908 – October 11, 1982), also known as Nila Nagini Devi, was an American writer, linguist, translator, and arts patron.
Nilla Cram Cook was born in Davenport, Iowa, the daughter of playwright George Cram Cook and his second wife, journalist Mollie Anastasia Price.
Her father and stepmother Susan Glaspell brought her to Greece as a girl, to study languages and culture there.
At age 18, in 1927, Nilla Cram Cook married Greek poet and government official Nikos Proestopoulos; they had a son, Serios Nicholas Proestopoulos (also known as Sirius Cook), and divorced in 1932.
Mary Sully painted an abstract portrait titled "Nila Cram Cook" in the 1930s.
In 1931, Cook left her husband in Greece and brought her young son to Kashmir, where she became a follower of Gandhi, converted to Hinduism, and studied Sanskrit, Hindi, and Persian literatures.
After she left Gandhi's ashram, with a shaved head and barefoot, she crashed a car, and was detained as a vagrant and hospitalized for a month in 1934, in Calcutta, then deported with her son back to the United States.
On arrival at Ellis Island, she made odd pronouncements ("delusions of grandeur", according to her brother), and news stories remarked on the "dramatic" and "hectic" scene.
She married again very briefly, to Albert Nathaniel Hutchins in 1934; that marriage was annulled.
She wrote about this part of her life in a memoir, My Road to India (1939).
In 1939, she became Europe correspondent for an American weekly, Liberty. She covered World War II from Greece, until she escaped Nazi detention in July 1941, and fled with her son to Tehran.
She helped build national theatre, ballet, and opera programs in Iran in the 1940s.
She worked with a fellow American expatriate, dancer Xenia Zarina, in Iran.
She worked as a cultural attaché at the American Embassy in Tehran from 1941 to 1947.
During that time, Cook converted to Islam, and spent years on a personal project, editing and translating the Koran into English, with her own commentary.
She held a high position in Iran's Ministry of Education, oversaw film censorship, and went on radio to read her translations of poetry.
Cook took a renewed interest in Kashmir in 1954, and compiled a book of translated poems, titled The Way of the Swan: Poems of Kashmir (1958).
Cook toured in Greece with her son and cousin and their wives in 1965.
She died in 1982, aged 74 years, in Neunkirchen, Austria.
Her gravesite is in Delphi, Greece, next to her father's grave there.
