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Ruth Moore was born on 1903 in United States, is an American novelist. Discover Ruth Moore'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 86 years old?

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1903

Ruth Moore (1903–1989) was an important Maine writer of the twentieth century.

She is best known for her honest portrayals of Maine people and evocative descriptions of the state.

Now primarily thought of as a regional writer, Moore was a significant literary figure on the national stage during her career.

Her second novel Spoonhandle spent fourteen weeks on the New York Times bestseller list in the company of George Orwell, W. Somerset Maugham and Robert Penn Warren.

In her time, Moore was hailed as "New England's only answer to Faulkner".

She was born in 1903 on Gotts Island, a small island just off the southwestern tip of Mount Desert Island, Maine.

Moore attended Albany State Teacher's College (now SUNY Albany) and majored in English and economics.

1926

In 1926, Moore moved to New York City where she worked as personal secretary to Mary White Ovington, one of the founders of the NAACP.

Ovington had spent many summers at her brother's cottage on Gotts Island and had gotten to know the Moore family.

1929

In 1929 Moore accepted a position as Assistant Campaign Manager with the NAACP working directly for the organization's head James Weldon Johnson.

Moore's first published work, a poem "Voyage", appeared in a 1929 issue of the Saturday Review of Literature.

1930

In the summer of 1930, she traveled to the south as an NAACP investigator, where she successfully unearthed evidence that led to the freeing of two African American youths falsely accused of murder.

Moore returned to Maine in late 1930.

She enrolled in a master's program at the University of Maine, but left after one semester and returned to New York City.

1932

From 1932 to 1935, Moore worked as assistant to Dr. John Haynes Holmes, a prominent minister and associate of Ovington's. In 1935, the novelist Alice Tisdale Hobart hired Moore.

She moved with the Hobarts, first to Washington, D.C., then to Berkeley California.

1940

During a visit to Maine in 1940, Moore's sister introduced her to Eleanor Mayo.

Mayo accompanied Moore on her return to California with the intention of attending the University of California.

1941

Moore and Mayo moved back to the East Coast in 1941.

After a brief stay on Gotts Island, the couple moved to New York City.

Moore quickly found a job at Reader's Digest.

1943

Moore's debut novel, The Weir, was published in 1943.

1945

Her story "It Don't Change Much" was published in The New Yorker in 1945.

1946

In 1946, Moore followed her earlier success with her sophomore novel, Spoonhandle.

She sold the film rights to 20th Century Fox.

1948

The film, retitled Deep Waters, was filmed on location in Vinalhaven, Maine and released in 1948.

The sale of Spoonhandle gave Moore the financial success she needed to return to Maine.

She and Mayo purchased land on the west side of Mount Desert Island and set about building their house.

Though the couple traveled extensively, they never again moved away from their beloved Maine.

1979

By 1979, Moore had published 13 novels including The Walk Down Main Street (1960), The Sea Flower (1965), and The Gold and Silver Hooks (1969).

She also published 3 books of poetry—one of which, Cold as a Dog and the Wind Northeast, was published by folklorist and singer-songwriter Gordon Bok of Camden, Maine.

1980

In a 1980 letter to author Sanford Phippen, she described "regional" as one of only two dirty words — the other being "interview".

In the same letter, she stressed her belief that Maine "is a microcosm of everywhere else."

Editor Sven Davisson writes in the introduction to Foley Craddock, "[Moore] was a regional writer only in the sense that one could call Faulkner regional, in that he wrote of his 'postage stamp of soil.' Both writers had the gift of capturing the universal in the local... A novel about New York City or Chicago is ever and always about New York City or Chicago, while a novel about Maine or Jefferson, Mississippi, in adept hands, could be about any place in the world."

Though lauded by the reviewers of the New York Herald and Saturday Review, Moore drew mixed reviews from the New York Times.

Eventually the Times quit reviewing her books..

1981

The two would remain together until Mayo's death from a brain tumor in 1981.

1989

Moore died in nearby Bar Harbor in December 1989.

For much of her literary life, Moore resisted being classified as a "regional" author.

2018

Moore's family first settled the Maine midcoast region in the late 18th century.