- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE6339
Sweetser, Marceine
(1921 – 2016)- Born 1 January, 1921, Brisbane Queensland Australia
- Died 25 January, 2016, Lewisburg Pennsylvania United States of America
- Occupation Author, Playwright, Poet
Summary
Marceine la Dickfos was born in Brisbane in 1921. In 1942 she married Lt. Wesley D. Sweetser of the U.S. Army Air Corps and three years later Marceine and their son sailed to America to join Wesley.
Marceine received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in theatre and drama at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and after being offered a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship in 1966, she completed a Master of Arts degree.
The following year Marceine began studying at Cornell University after receiving an Arts and Humanities Fellowship. Whilst at Cornell, Marceine acted, directed and won awards for poetry, play production and play-writing.
On completion of her studies, Marceine and her husband spent a year in England before settling down in Oswego, New York.