While attending Columbia, Bristow continued to support herself by writing papers for others, working as a nursemaid, typing theses, writing biographies of businessmen for trade journals, and working as a secretary to a Polish baroness on Riverside Drive. Bristow also won a $90 scholarship from Columbia to cover her first semester. Bristow's parents were unable to support her financially, so Bristow earned money by writing essays for other people, saving enough to purchase the typewriter required for school. Īfter college, Bristow set her sights on studying journalism at the Pulitzer School of Journalism at Columbia University. Bristow's parents moved to New Orleans in February of that year. īristow graduated from Judson College in 1924 with degrees in English and French. Bristow was voted 'Most Original' in her junior class in 1923. Bristow directed and acted in two plays at Judson, playing the roles of men in both. Students were required to wear uniforms, and they were forbidden from speaking with men or boys during visits downtown. Bristow disliked the strict rules that Judson imposed on its all-women student population. Bristow became interested in writing while reporting junior high school functions for her local newspaper.īristow attended Anderson Baptist College in Anderson, South Carolina, for one year before transferring to Judson College in Marion, Alabama. Gwen Bristow (Septem– August 17, 1980) was an American writer and journalist.īristow was born in Marion, South Carolina in 1903 to Baptist minister Louis Judson Bristow and Caroline Cornelia Winkler.

Celia Garth by Gwen Bristow