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Atherton, Gertrude Franklin (Horn)

Atherton, Gertrude Franklin (Horn) ăth´ərtən [key], 1857–1948, American writer, b. San Francisco. She wrote a series of historical novels about California, which includeThe Californians(1898),Rezánov(1906), andThe Ancestors(1907). Her most popular books areThe Conqueror(1902), which is a fictionalized biography of Alexander Hamilton, and the sensational novelBlack Oxen(1923), concerning a woman who is rejuvenated by a glandular operation and based on Atherton's own experience of glandular therapy.

See her autobiographyThe Adventures of a Novelist(1932).

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