Florence Atwater

A Chicago native with a scholarly background in French literature, Florence Hasseltine Atwater earned both her AB and MA at the University of Chicago, where she co-edited The Chicago Literary Monthly and studied under Richard Atwater, whom she later married. Following her husband’s 1934 stroke, she taught French, English and Latin at the high-school level while contributing short pieces to The New… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources