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American writer (1909–1994)

Marchette Gaylord Chute (1909 – May 6, 1994) was an American writer.

Also wrote a biography of the Bard, based upon documents and texts existing at New York Public Library.

As a biographer, she specialized in English literary figures; she published biographies of Geoffrey Chaucer, Ben Jonson, and William Shakespeare. As a children's writer, she specialized in tales written during the periods described in her biographies, and in rhyming verses for children.^[1]

Biography

Marchette Chute was born in Wayzata, Minnesota, to an upper-middle-class family.

Her father William Chute was a realtor, and her English mother Edith Mary Pickburn Chute had been a hospital nurse in London. She attended Central High School in Minneapolis, and was then a student at the University of Minnesota.

After her father's death in 1939 her mother moved the family to New York City to pursue her daughters' literary careers.

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Her older sister Mary Grace (b. 1907) (writing as "M. G. Chute") published, among other work, at least twenty stories in a series