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- Frances Noyes Hart was the author of a score of popular crime novels and short stories, many of which appeared in national magazines during the 1920s and 1930s. A short list of her more successful works include "My a E F a Hail And Farewell" (1920), "Contact and Other Stories" (1923), "The Bellamy Trial" (1927), "Hide in the Dark" (1929), "Pigs in Clover" (1931) and "The Crooked Lane" (1934). Born on 10 August, 1890, at Silver Springs, MD, Hart was the daughter of Frank Brett Noyes (1863-1949), publisher of the Washington Star Newspaper Company and president of the Associated Press. Her mother was Janet Newbold Noyes (1868-1942), a well-known civic leader in the Washington, DC, area. Mrs. Noyes was credited as being the driving force behind the passage of the National Arboretum Act of 1931. Frances received her education at the Chicago Latin School, Columbia University and overseas at schools in Florence, Italy, and Paris, France. During the First World War she served with US Naval Intelligence and did volunteer work at YMCA canteens. On 6 January 1921 she married Edward Henry Hart, a general counsel with the New York Federal Reserve Bank. Frances Noyes Hart died unexpectedly on 23 October 1943, a few days after entering the Silver Hill Hospital in New Canaan, CT, in need of rest. She was survived by her husband and two daughters, Janet and Ann.