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Lockridge, Frances

The American author and journalist Frances Lockridge was born as Frances Davis in Kansas City in Missouri, where she also grew up. After finishing school in the town, she studied at the University of Kansas in Lawrence and subsequently, 1918–22, worked as a reporter and music critic on the Kansas City Post. In 1922, she married Richard Lockridge, left her newspaper job and was instead very i...

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