Marjorie Holmes papers

Born on September 22, 1910, and raised in Storm Lake, Iowa, Marjorie Holmes attended Buena Vista College (now Buena Vista University) from 1927 to 1929. Following her graduation from Cornell College in 1931, she was briefly a farmer and was involved in the radio industry. In 1943, she published her first book, World by the Tail. For the next five decades her career in the literary world consisted of free-lance writing, which enabled her to write for several well-known literary companies such as Reader’s Digest and the Washington Star. When she was not writing her popular columns “Love and Laughter” and “A Woman’s Conversation with God,” she was writing national best-selling books such as Two from Galilee. She passed away on March 13, 2002 in Manassas, Virginia.