Chloe Gartner, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetChloe Gartner
American writer
Date of Birth: 21-Feb-1916
Date of Death: 08-Aug-2003
Profession: novelist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Chloe Gartner
- Chloe Maria Gartner Trimble (21 March 1916 – 6 August 2003) was an American historical novelist who wrote under the name Chloe Gartner.
- Born Chloe Maria Gartner in Troy, Kansas where she spent her early childhood, Gartner was also raised in Texas, in El Monte, California, and in Lincoln, Nebraska, then as a young adult resided with her mother and stepfather in Grand Junction, Colorado where she attended Mesa College.
- Relocating to the Bay Area originally to study at UC Berkeley, Gartner subsequently took writing courses at the College of Marin prior to a long-time tenure at the San Francisco Chronicle and was for a time married to Chronicle reporter Peter Trimble whom she met through her original Chronicle position of librarian, while Trimble was working his original Chronicle position of copy boy: the couple, who lived in San Francisco, became the parents of a daughter: Kristine Gartner Trimble Cameron, in 1947.
- From 1956 to 1961 Gartner worked as assistant to Chronicle columnist Stanton Delaplane: by this time she was divorced and living with her daughter in Kentfield, California.In 1937, while residing in Grand Junction, Gartner had a play entitled Obscure Destination published, and in 1938 she had published a one-act play: Perchance to Dream (published by Samuel French), and also the first two of her few evident short stories: "Giuseppe Goes Home" and "Prelude to Exile" which appeared in respectively the University of Nebraska quarterly journal Prairie Schooner and the Montana State University quarterly journal Frontier and Midland.
- However Gartner evidently only began to write in earnest in the mid-1950s when a sudden interest in the First Crusade resulted in the 1960 publication of Gartner's first novel: The Infidels, written over two years subsequent to a three-year period of research.
- Gartner subsequently had several novels with historical backgrounds published, as listed below: In her later years Gartner resided with her daughter's family in Templeton, California.
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