Grace Livingston Hill Biography
ALL ABOUT GRACE LIVINGSTON HILL
Grace Livingston Hill is well-known as one the most prolific writers
of romantic fiction. Her personal life was fraught with joys and sorrows
not unlike those experienced by many of her fictional heroines. Born in
Wellsville, New York, Grace nearly died during the first hours of life. But
her loving parents and friends turned to God in prayer. She survived miraculously,
thus her thankful father named her Grace. Grace was always close to her father,
a Presbyterian minister, and her mother, a published writer. It was from
them she learned the art of storytelling. When Grace was twelve, a close aunt
surprised her with a hardbound, illustrated copy of one of Grace's stories.
This was the beginning of Grace's journey into being a published author. In
1892 Grace married Fred Hill, a young minister, and they soon had two lovely
young daughters. Then came 1901, a difficult year for Grace--the year when
within months of each other, both her father and her husband died. Suddenly
Grace had to find a new place to live (her home was owned by the church where
her husband had been pastor). It was a struggle for Grace to raise her young
daughters alone, but through everything she kept writing. In 1902 she produced
The Angel Of His Presence, The Story Of A Whim, and An Unwilling
Guest. In 1903 her two books According To The Pattern and Because
Of Stephen were published. It wasn't long before Grace was a well-known
author, but she wanted to go beyond just entertaining her readers. She soon
included the message of God's salvation through Jesus Christ in each of her
books. For Grace, the most important thing she did was not write books but
share the message of salvation, a message she felt God wanted her to share
through the abilities he had given her. In all, Grace Livingston Hill wrote
more than one hundred books, all of which have sold thousands of copies and
have touched the lives of readers around the world with their message of
"enduring love" and the true way to lasting happiness: a relationship with
God through his Son, Jesus Christ. In an interview shortly before her death,
Grace's devotion to her Lord still shone clear. She commented that whatever
she had accomplished had been God's doing. She was only his servant, one who
had tried to follow his teaching in all her thoughts and writing.
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