Nancy Huston BanksNancy Huston Banks, an American journalist, literary critic, and novelist, was born in Kentucky. Nancy Huston was born in Morganfield, Kentucky, the daughter of Judge George Huston and Sallie Brady Huston. She received her education at the Convent ofSt. Vincent. Banks served on the Board of Lady Managers at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, where she worked as a writer and editor. Banks relocated to New York to seek a writing career in the early 1890s. She worked as a book reviewer for The Bookman magazine during its first year of publication. She also resided in London for a while and reported from South Africa during the Boer War for a London newspaper. In November 1899, she was believed to be caught up in the Siege of Kimberley, which was blockaded by the Boer army, alongside Cecil Rhodes and fellow New Yorker Amalia Küssner, a miniaturist. Nancy Huston Banks published many books, including Stairs of Sand (1890), Oldfield: A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century (1902), Round Anvil Rock: A Romance (1903), and The Little Hills (1905). When evaluating the last volume, Frederic Taber Cooper wrote, "Few are so fortunate as Mrs. Banks in knowing the range and boundaries of their intellectual gardens, the thoughts and fancies that will best flower therein." Read More Read Less