Life
Clare Winger was born on January 18, 1891, in Freeport, Illinois and later attended Smith College in Massachusetts. In 1912 she married Frank Clyde Harris. Her husband was an architect and engineer who served in World War I and was chief engineer with the Loudon Machinery Company in Iowa and one of the organizers of the American Monorail Company of Cleveland, Ohio.
Harris gave birth to three sons (Clyde Winger, born 1915; Donald Stover, born 1916; and Lynn Thackrey, born 1918). She died in Pasadena, California in 1968.
Harris wrote her most acclaimed works during the 1920s. In 1930, she stopped writing to raise and educate her children.
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