Anne Homer Doerflinger was an American writer

Writer

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 who is best known for her short works of fiction. Under the name Anne Homer she published more than 100 short stories in magazines like Good Housekeeping

Good Housekeeping

Good Housekeeping is a women's magazine owned by the Hearst Corporation, featuring articles about women's interests, product testing by The Good Housekeeping Institute, recipes, diet, health as well as literary articles. It is well known for the "Good Housekeeping Seal," popularly known as the...

, The Ladies Home Journal, Mademoiselle

Mademoiselle (magazine)

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, and The Saturday Evening Post

The Saturday Evening Post

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among others. A 1929 graduate of Smith College

Smith College

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, she was the daughter of composer Sidney Homer

Sidney Homer

Sidney Homer was a classical composer, primarily of songs.Born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, in 1864 , he was the youngest child of deaf parents. He attended Phillips Academy, Andover, in the Class of 1884, but did not attend college. He married contralto Louise Dilworth Beatty in 1895...

 and opera singer Louise Homer

Louise Homer

Louise Homer was an American operatic contralto who had an active international career in concert halls and opera houses from 1895 until her retirement in 1932. After a brief stint as a vaudeville entertainer in New England, she made her professional opera debut in France in 1898...

. She notably penned a biography on her mother: Louise Homer and the Golden Age of Opera (1974, William Morrow and Company

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Homer's sister was the author Joy Homer who died in 1946 at the age of 31 after a prolonged illness. Joy was married to editor William M. Doerflinger of E.P. Dutton and Macmillan Publishing

Macmillan Publishers (United States)

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, and the couple had one daughter together, Katherine. Anne took care of her sister and her family through the years illness, and following Joy's death, she became William's second wife. Anne and William had four children of their own together.

Homer died at the age of 87 of cancer at Morristown Memorial Hospital in Morristown, New Jersey

Morristown, New Jersey

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