Frances Noyes Hart

Frances Newbold Noyes Hart (August 1890 – October 25, 1943) was an American writer whose short stories were published in Scribner's magazine, the Saturday Evening Post, the Ladies' Home Journal.

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 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.