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Sally Wood Kohn papers

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Identifier: D.196

Biographical / Historical note

Sally Calkins Wood Kohn (1897-1985) was an author of some note who published under the name "Sally Wood." A descendant of prominent Rochester families, she graduated from Wellesley College in 1918, enlisted in the Army Nursing Corps and was stationed at Camp Devens in Massachusetts. After Armistice, she returned to Rochester, completed nurse's training, and worked as a Public Health nurse among the impoverished. Her first marriage was to Stephen Raushenbush, an investigator of labor conditions in the Pennsylvania coal mines.

In 1924, the couple settled in New York's Greenwich Village where Wood resumed her writing and met the Southern writers Caroline Gordon and her husband Allen Tate. The following year, Wood travelled to France to care for her brother Remsen who was seriously ill. After two years, she returned to the U.S. ill herself. Several years after Wood's first marriage failed, she married Dr. Lawrence A. Kohn; their marriage ended with Dr. Kohn's death in 1977. Wood published a short story, "Breakfast in the Country," in 1934, wrote two mysteries and numerous short stories, and translated the poetry of Louis Aragon. In 1984, Wood published The Southern Mandarins, a selection of letters from Caroline Gordon from 1926-1937.

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Sally Wood Kohn papers
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Date
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Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

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