![]() ![]() ![]() She was born in 1908 in Bamberg County, SC. John was a popular and successful author of children's mystery books and an Atlanta journalist whose work was much admired across America in the mid 20th century. She was hired for the staff of the Atlanta Journal and Constitution Sunday magazine in 1941 and remained there until 1954 when she joined her husband, an Army officer who was stationed at a hospital in Germany. in Journalism at the University of Georgia in 1930. She grew up in Savannah where her family had moved and was graduated from Savannah High School. She loved to read and maintained an interest in reading and writing from an early age she even published a poem at the age of 9. ![]()
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