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Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant

Also Known As: "Elsie"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Winchester, MA, United States
Death: January 26, 1965 (83)
New York, NY, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Charles Spencer Sergeant and Elizabeth Blake Sergeant
Sister of Rosamond Newberry and Katharine Shepley White

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About Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant

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Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant (April 23, 1881, Winchester, Massachusetts - January 26, 1965, New York City) is an American journalist and writer.

Sergeant's work includes non-fiction works (French Perspectives, 1916, and her best known work "Shadow-Shapes: Journal of a Wounded Woman," 1920) as well as one novel ("Short as Any Dream," 1929). She was also a biographer and author of a study about Willa Cather, as well as some 83 articles published in various periodicals.

E. S. Sergeant was a war correspondent for "The New Republic" at the western front, where she was wounded in 1918. [Roger Angell wrote (2006), "While visiting an abandoned and supposedly safe sector of captured trenches, with a young French officer as guide. Another journalist in the party, at Mont Bligny, a Frenchwoman, idly picked up a German potato-masher grenade, which exploded. The woman died, the officer lost an arm, and Elsie, with two smashed ankles, ended up in the French military hospital at Neuilly, to begin a long recovery. She got a book, "Shadow Shapes," and a slight limp out of the accident, which never quite fitted the rest of her life story."]

After 1920, she was living in Taos, New Mexico with respect to her doctor advise. She wrote about the Pueblo Indians and New Mexico itself until the mid-1930's. She spent some time in New York and studied under the analyst C.G. Jung. She spent some time writing at the MacDowell Colony.

She also wrote Robert Frost: The Trial by Existence (1960).

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Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant's Timeline

1881
April 23, 1881
Winchester, MA, United States
1965
January 26, 1965
Age 83
New York, NY, United States