Chloe Gartner was an American novelist; her full married name was Chloe Maria Gartner Trimble. Born in Troy, Kansas

Troy, Kansas

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, Gartner grew up mostly in Texas. She also lived in Kentfield, California

Kentfield, California

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 for a period of time with her daughter. Gartner was once a full-time assistant to the San Francisco Chronicle

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's Stanton Delaplane

Stanton Delaplane

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. Educated at the University of California

University of California

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 and the University of Colorado

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, Gartner made the history of the Middle Ages her area of expertise. In 1938 Gartner had a one-act play entitled Perchance to Dream published by Samuel French

Samuel French

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 and also had her first short story

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: "Giuseppe Goes Home", published, the latter appearing in the Prairie Schooner. From 1960 Gartner had several novels with historical backgrounds published, as listed below:

• The Infidels (1960)
• Drums of Khartoum (1967)
• The Woman from the Glen (1973)
• Mistress of the Highlands aka Highland Mistress (1976)
• Anne Bonny
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  (1977)
• Daughter of the Desert (1978)
• The Image and the Dream (1980)
• Still Falls the Rain (1986)
• Greenleaf (1987)
• Lower than the Angels (1989)