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Janet Ayer Fairbank

Born: 1878 in Chicago, Illinois
Died: 1951

Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Fairbank was born in Chicago.

Biography: Janet Ayer Fairbank was an author and suffragette. She attended private schools before enrolling at the University of Chicago. Janet Ayer married Kellogg Fairbank, a lawyer. She joined the women’s suffrage movement, and became incresingly involved in political matters. During WWI she joined the Progressive Party and the National Defense committees, and also performed valuable hospital work in Chicago.


Awards:

Primary Literary Genre(s): Fiction; Poetry

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Janet Ayer Fairbank on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=janet+ayer+fairbank+


Selected Titles

  Cortlandts of washington square.
ISBN: 1230241736 OCLC: 923413474

Theclassics Us, [Place of publication not identified] : 2013.

 

 

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