Abbe (or Abbie) Carter Goodloe (January 15, 1867 – October 8, 1960) was an American writer, sometimes credited as A. Carter Goodloe or Carter Goodloe.

Early life

Abbie Carter was born in

Versailles, Kentucky Versailles () is a home rule-class city in Woodford County, Kentucky, United States. It lies by road west of Lexington and is part of the Lexington-Fayette Metropolitan Statistical Area. Versailles has a population of 9,316 according to 2017 cen ...

, the daughter of John Kemp Goodloe and Mary Lucretia Goodloe. Her mother was a clubwoman, and her father was a lawyer and a judge. She graduated from

Wellesley College Wellesley College is a private women's liberal arts college in Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1870 by Henry and Pauline Durant as a female seminary, it is a member of the original Seven Sisters Colleges, an unofficia ...

in 1898, and wrote the lyrics for two songs in the college songbook ("Mona Lisa" and "Le Pays du Tendre"). After college she went to France to improve her French language skills.

Career

Goodloe was a writer who specialized in short stories, many of which were published in

Scribner's Magazine ''Scribner's Magazine'' was an American periodical published by the publishing house of Charles Scribner's Sons from January 1887 to May 1939. ''Scribner's Magazine'' was the second magazine out of the Scribner's firm, after the publication of ...

. She also did translations for Scribner's. Books by Goodloe included ''Antinoüs: a tragedy'' (1891), ''College Girls'' (1895, a collection of her stories, illustrated by

Charles Dana Gibson Charles Dana Gibson (September 14, 1867 – December 23, 1944) was an American illustrator. He was best known for his creation of the Gibson Girl, an iconic representation of the beautiful and independent Euro-American woman at the turn of the ...

), ''Calvert of Strathore'' (1903, a novel), ''At the Foot of the Rockies'' (1905, more short stories), and ''The Star-Gazers'' (1910, a romance set in Mexico). Her style was described as "vivid", and "essentially clever and racy to a delightful degree", in an 1895 review. She also wrote plays. Her story "Claustrophobia" (''Scribner's'', 1926) won an

O. Henry Award The O. Henry Award is an annual American award given to short stories of exceptional merit. The award is named after the American short-story writer O. Henry. The ''PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories'' is an annual collection of the year's twenty best ...

in 1927; it was made into a film titled ''

I Live My Life ''I Live My Life'' is a 1935 American comedy-drama film starring Joan Crawford, Brian Aherne, and Frank Morgan, and is based on the story "Claustrophobia" by A. Carter Goodloe. Plot summary Kay Bentley (Joan Crawford), a bored socialite se ...

'' (1935), starring

Joan Crawford Joan Crawford (born Lucille Fay LeSueur; March 23, ncertain year from 1904 to 1908was an American actress. She started her career as a dancer in traveling theatrical companies before debuting on Broadway. Crawford was signed to a motion pic ...

and

Brian Aherne William Brian de Lacy Aherne (2 May 190210 February 1986) was an English actor of stage, screen, radio and television, who enjoyed a long and varied career in Britain and the United States. His first Broadway appearance in '' The Barretts of ...

. Later in her career, she sold scenarios for television productions. During

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll, one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, ...

, she hosted fundraising events for war relief causes with the Wellesley Club of Kentucky.

Personal life

Goodloe played golf. She died in 1960, aged 93 years, in New York City. Her stories are still anthologized in collections of American literature.

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