Worth Tuttle Hedden information

Worth Tuttle Hedden (born Ella Worth Tuttle; January 10, 1896 – September 14, 1985) was an American writer who released four books between the 1940s and 1950s. Of her works, Wives of High Pasture became available in 1944 while The Other Room came out in 1947. The following year,The Other Room received the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for fiction. After publishing Love is a Wound in 1952, Two and Three Make One was made public in 1956 under her pen name Winifred Woodley. Apart from books, Tuttle wrote for the Encyclopædia Britannica between 1927 and 1928 while also writing for magazines such as The World Tomorrow. She advocated for civil rights.^[1] She won a Southern Authors Award.

Heden graduated from Trinity College in Durham, North Carolina, in 1916. She married Walter Page Hedden in 1919. She wrote short stories and essays about women and African Americans magazines before becoming a novelist. She studied at the Columbia University School of Journalism.^[2]

Outside of writing, Tuttle held secretarial and assistant positions between the 1910s and 1920s. Some people that Tuttle worked for in these positions include Walter B. Pitkin and Mary Hunter Austin. During the late 1910s, Tuttle helped veterans while working at a New York branch of the American Red Cross. She wrote to W. E. B. Du Bois in 1928 about story she hoped to publish in The Crisis.^[3] As an English teacher, Tuttle taught at Straight College in the early 1920s and The Windward School during the mid-1930s.