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Agatha Young
Agatha Brooks Young (November 18, 1898 - February 6, 1974) was an American novelist and a widely recognised authority on fashion and costuming.
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of Edward and ...view moreAgatha Brooks Young (November 18, 1898 - February 6, 1974) was an American novelist and a widely recognised authority on fashion and costuming.
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of Edward and Agnes Chapin Brooks, she was educated at the Cleveland School of Art, the School of Arts and Design and Columbia University in New York, and L’Ecole Francais in Paris.
Following her marriage in 1920 to Cleveland lawyer George Benham Young (1894-1957), she served as costume director at the Cleveland Play House from 1923-1927 and filled the same function at Yale University’s School of the Theater in 1928-1929. She was a faculty member at Western Reserve University from 1930-1932. She published two studies, first in 1927 titled Stage Costuming, and in 1937 Recurring Cycles in Fashion, 1760-1937.
She and her husband lived in Shaker Heights and in her family homestead in Chagrin Falls Township. During World War II, Mrs. Young served as statistical consultant for the War Department and the War Manpower Commission.
Her first novel, Light in the Sky (1948), was published under the pen name of Agatha Young. Her other novel Clown of the Gods, won the 1955 Martha Kinney Cooper Ohioans Library Association Fiction Award.
She and her husband later lived in Vermont and New York City, where she died in 1967 at the age of 75.
Born in 1898, she had a long association with many aspects of the theatre.view less