Eva Best | |
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 Portrait photo from A Woman of the Century | |
| Born | Eva Williams December 19, 1851 Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | April 17, 1925 (aged 73) Dayton, Ohio, U.S. |
| Resting place | Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton, Ohio |
| Pen name | Saturn |
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William H. Best (m. 1869) |
| Children | 2 |
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Eva Best (née, Williams; pen name, Saturn; 1851–1925) was an American story writer, poet, music composer, dramatist, and painter. She worked as a newspaper editor. She wrote a great deal in dialect.[1][2]
Best was among the first persons to recognize the poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar and was influential in bringing him before the public. In his youth, Dunbar was an elevator attendant in the same building in which Best's father conducted an architect's office, and she became acquainted with the youth and his literary endeavors through seeing him in her father's building.[3]
- ^ Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). "BEST, Mrs. Eva". A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life. Charles Wells Moulton. p. 80. Retrieved 8 May 2024.
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- ^ Crew, Harvey W., ed. (1889). History of Dayton, Ohio: With Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Pioneer and Prominent Citizens. United Brethren Publishing House. pp. 564–65. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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