Barnes, Margaret

1886 - Margaret Ayer Barnes was born 8th of April in Chicago, Illinois.

1907 - She was educated at Bryn Mawr College and earned an A.B. degree.

1910 - Margaret Ayer Barnes married Cecil Barnes.

1926 - Barnes broke her back in a traffic accident.

1926-1930 - she wrote several short stories and three plays, including an adaptation of Edith Wharton's novel The Age of Innocence.

1931 - Margaret Ayer Barnes won the Pulitzer Prize for her first novel, Years of Grace.  Her older sister, Janet Ayer Fairbank, was also a notable writer.

1967 - Margaret Ayer Barnes died October 25, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.