Gladys Hasty Carroll, South Berwick, 1937
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Maine Historical Society
When Gladys Hasty Carroll, a native of South Berwick, published "As the Earth Turns" in 1933, her fortunes changed.
Carroll (1904-1999) had been writing children's literature, but the novel about a Maine farm family was chosen for the Book of the Month Club and the rights sold to a Hollywood Studio.
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