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Austin Strong. One of the great Nantucket personalities of the twentieth century, Austin Strong (1881-1952) was a stage designer, theatrical producer, author, landscape architect, Mason, clairvoyant, commodore of the Nantucket Yacht Club (1931 and 1932), founder of the Wharf Rat Club, promoter of and participant in the Nantucket Cottage ...
Austin Strong was born on 18 April 1881 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was a writer, known for 7th Heaven (1927), Seventh Heaven (1937) and Qichongtian (1940). He was married to Mary Holbrook Wilson. He died on 17 September 1952 in Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA.
- Writer
- April 18, 1881
- Austin Strong
- September 17, 1952
Austin Strong was born on April 18, 1881 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was a writer, known for 7th Heaven (1927), Seventh Heaven (1937) and Qichongtian (1940). He was married to Mary Holbrook Wilson. He died on September 17, 1952 in Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA.
- April 18, 1881
- September 17, 1952
- The Norman H. Strouse Collection
- The Angel Collection
- The Austin Strong Collection
The original 800 item collection of the RLSM was the personal collection of the museum’s founder. It largely consisted of various editions of Stevenson’s works, books and articles about Stevenson, part of Stevenson’s personal library, original letters and manuscripts by Stevenson and his family and friends, and a limited amount of memorabilia. Even...
Hundreds of items acquired from Margaret “Angel” Bailey, who was Isobel Field’s personal assistant and caretaker at the end of her life. Isobel (née Osbourne) Field was Stevenson’s step-daughter who lived with the family while in the South Seas. She and her son Austin Strong inherited much of the Stevenson family possessions after Stevenson’s wife ...
Austin Strong was Isobel Field’s son, who lived in Samoa with the Stevenson family as a boy, and was legally adopted by Stevenson after Isobel divorced. Strong went on to inherit much of the Stevenson family material, which he moved to his Nantucket house. He eventually became a successful playwright, whose work Seventh Heaven won the first Academy...
Austin Strong, American playwright, stage designer, theater producer, author, artist, and landscape architect. Strong was born in San Francisco on April 18, 1881 and grew up in Hawaii and Samoa, where he lived with his step-grandfather, Robert Louis Stevenson.
American dramatist. Strong is best known for his stage and screen plays THE DRUMS OF OUDE and SEVENTH HEAVEN. This collection has no restrictions. One box of cataloged correspondence (Box A) is located on-site. The remainder of the collection is located off-site.
