Rosamond Marshall (October 17, 1902 – November 13, 1957) was an American novelist.[1] She wrote historical romances for adult and youth readers during the 1940s and 1950s, and two of her novels, Kitty and The Bixby Girls, were made into motion pictures.
Early life
Marshall was born Rosamond van der Zee Botsford on October 17, 1893, New York City, New York,[1] the daughter of Charles and Florence (née Topping Botsford).
Career
Her first published novel in English, None But the Brave, A Story of Holland (1942), for young people, won the New York Herald Tribune Spring Book Award.[citation needed]
Rosamond Marshall's novels for young people were overshadowed by the success of her historical romances for adults. The first of these, Kitty, set the pattern for a continuing series of novels which had sales (in paperback reprints) ranging from a million and a half to three million by 1942.[citation needed]
While in Turin, Italy she met and married an Italian, Pierro Antonio Gariazzo on December 26, 1914, and lived for a time in Rome. After divorcing Gariazzo, she married Albert Earl Marshall of New York City, USA, on August 10, 1936.
