Louise Kidder Sparrow

Born in Malden, Massachusetts, Sparrow was a graduate of Emerson College,[1] and began her artistic instruction in Europe at age 16.

[2] Sparrow's father — Wellington Parker Kidder, the inventor of the noiseless typewriter — printed her first book of poetry, entitled Lyrics and Translations, in 1904.

There, she engaged in further studies in sculpture, working with Henry Kirke Bush-Brown, Edmund C. Messer, and Ulric Stonewall Jackson Dunbar.

He died in 1924 when his ship, the USS Tacoma (CL-20), ran aground in Mexico; she later wrote the book The Last Cruise about the incident.

Louise Sparrow died in 1979 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center after a myocardial infarction.