Grace Miller White was an American

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ess. Born Mary Esther Miller, she lived her whole life in Ithaca, New York

Ithaca, New York

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. She adopted the name Grace around 1897, in memory of a younger sister who had died before reaching her first birthday. She married twice, first to Homer White, and then to Friend H. Miller.

She began her writing career novelizing play

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s, before turning her hand to novel

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s in 1909. Several of her books were adapted for the big screen, most notably Tess of the Storm Country, which has been filmed on four separate occasions between 1914 and 1960.

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