Literary Birthday – 1 October – Faith Baldwin

Faith Baldwin was born on 1 October 1893 and died on 18 March 1978.

Faith Baldwin Quotes

1. Time is a dressmaker specialising in alterations.
2. No year of life is emotionally, spiritually or even materially, all drought or all rainfall; nor is it all sun. The road turns a little every day, and one day there’s a sudden twist we didn’t dream was there, and for every loss there is somewhere a gain, for every grief a happiness, for every deprivation a giving.
3. Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.
4. You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it.
5. We, too, the children of the earth, have our moon phases all through any year; the darkness, the delivery from darkness, the waxing and waning.
6. Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.
7. Only children and a few spiritually evolved people are born to feel gratitude as naturally as they breathe, without even thinking. Most of us come to it step by painful step, to discover that gratitude is a form of acceptance.

Faith Baldwin was an American author of romance fiction. She was one of the most successful writers of light fiction in the 20th century, whose works targeted middle-class women. She published 100 novels and became a highly successful bestselling writer. In 1936, in the midst of the Great Depression, she published five novels in magazine serial form and three earlier serials in volume form and saw four of her works made into motion pictures, for an income that year in excess of $315,000. Baldwin’s books present a highly simplified version of life. No matter what the difficulties, honour and goodness triumph, and the hero and heroine are united. She did not include evil, depravity, poverty, and sex in her works. Her books include District Nurse, Those Difficult Years, Skyscraper (Femmes Fatales), The Office Wife, Manhattan Nights, He Married a Doctor, and her last completed novel, Adam’s Eden. In 1951, Baldwin hosted a weekly television anthology program on Saturday afternoons, called Faith Baldwin Romance Theatre.

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by Amanda Patterson
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