Alice Henson Ernst (September 3, 1880 – February 12, 1980) was an American playwright, professor and author.
[1][2] She earned a bachelors of arts, magna cum laude, from the University of Washington (UW) in 1912, and then went on to receive her master's degree in 1913.
"[10] Ernst was a member of Beta Sigma Phi,[11] and the Eugene chapter of the National League of American Pen Women (NLAPW).
[5] Her play, Spring Sluicing (1927), won a first prize in a national Drama League of America contest in 1927.
[17] The Salt Lake Tribune wrote that Ernst's plays "possess strong dramatic power".
[20] Stranger is a "study of manners several thousand years ago and in this modern day," according to The Salt Lake Tribune.
[24] In 1938, she published another collection of plays, Backstage in Xanadu, which included illustrations by Constance Cole.
[20] The book included the plays Cloistered Calm, Welcome Stranger, Nightingale and Afternoon of a Nymph.
[20] Cloistered Calm is a comedy about "underpaid professors", while Nightingale is a romance set in Bagdad.
[21] She was again published in Theatre Arts Magazine in 1939, with an illustrated article called "Northwest Animal Dances".