208:. It brought her $ 2 and and encouraging note from the editor to submit again. Vining was a graduate of Germantown Friends School and received and AB from Bryn Mawr College in 1923. Her desire was to be a children's author, though she pursued other work to help support herself. She taught English, history and civics at a New Jersey high school while continuing to write, papering one corner of her bedroom with the rejection slips. In 1926, she earned an MS in library science from the Drexel Institute, and became a librarian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Elizabeth Janet Gray, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 6, 1902, to businessman John Gordon Gray, a manufacturer of scientific instruments, and Anne Moore (Iszard) Gray. The Gray family was Episcopalian, though it had Quaker roots, and Vining attended Germantown Friends School.
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wrote "It was the silence that drew me, that deep healing silence of the meeting at its best". In 1934 she converted to the Quaker faith. The couple had no children, and she never remarried.
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