In 1936, she published the year's number eight nonfiction bestseller, Live Alone and Like It, an advice book for young women on how to live independently. Hillis eventually became Vogue's assistant editor. After completing her education at Miss Dana's School for Young Ladies, a private school in New Jersey, and traveling abroad for a year, Marjorie went to work writing captions for Vogue magazine's pattern book. The family moved to Brooklyn, New York, in 1899, when Marjorie's father became pastor of Plymouth Congregational Church there, a pulpit once held by the famous abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher. Newell Dwight Hillis (1858-1929), a Congregationalist minister, and Annie Louise Patrick Hillis (1862-1930), herself a published author. Her book Live Alone and Like It was one of the most popular titles of the decade.īorn Margaret Louise Hillis in Peoria, Illinois, Marjorie Hillis was the second of three children of Dr. Marjorie Hillis (1889–1971) was an American author of popular nonfiction books for women in the 1930s.
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