Born in the Adirondack Mountains in the town of Johnsburg, N.Y.,
of English and French stock. Attended the schools of the neighborhood
and at the age of sixteen began teaching. Two years later
she came to New York, studied at the Stanhope-Wheatcroft Dramatic School,
and played upon the stage for one year. Not satisfied
with this life, however, she went to Boston, took special courses
in the Radcliffe-Harvard Extension and at Boston University,
and began writing for the press. Married Matlock Foster
and came to New York in 1911 where she became associated with
the `Review of Reviews' as literary editor, holding this position
until 1919. Mrs. Foster has published two books of verse,
"Wild Apples" and "Neighbors of Yesterday", both 1916. In the latter
she writes, with much narrative skill, of the isolated mountain folk
whom she knew in her girlhood.
