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Reeve, Winnifred Eaton Babcock: 1875-1954. Born in Montreal to English painter, Edward Eaton and Chinese mother, Grace; recent research supplied birth year; left Montreal to be journalist in Jamaica at 20; assumed Japanese identity and name Onoto Watanna in order to write best-selling Japanese romances; lived in Chicago and New York; married and divorced journalist Bertrand Babcock; accompanied second husband, Frank Reeve, to ranch near Morley, Alberta, 1917; moved to Hollywood where she was story editor of Universal Studios and screenwriter, 1924-1931; returned to live with husband, who had become successful in oil, in Calgary. // Also published, London: Hutchinson, [1923] (256p.); with frontispiece by George W. Gage, New York: W.J. Watt, c1924 ([8], 294, [2]p.); New York: A.L. Burt, [c1924] (295p.). Toronto edition has only name Onoto Watanna on title-page; New York edition by Watt is credited on title-page to "Winnifred Eaton (Onoto Watanna)." Story set in the ranching country of Alberta.

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