Excerpt from Everybody's Birthright: A Vision of Jeanne D' Arc
The library was dark, and very still. The short autumn day had been a gray one; and the shadows, which had not been driven out of the corners of the big room all day, came trooping forth unchallenged, and swathed it in deep duskiness by four o'clock.
Clara Elizabeth Laughlin (1873-1941) was an American writer, editor and radio personality. She was born in New York City and lived in Chicago.
Laughlin graduated from Chicago High School in 1890. She wrote more than 35 books. These included biographies of Sarah Bernhardt, Ferdinand Foch, and James Whitcomb Riley, in addition to an autobiography and several novels. She wrote articles for the Ladies Home Journal, and a series of travel books called "So you're going to."
Her papers are held by Smith College and were donated by her nieces.