Sleigh Maker Inn -Bed and Breakfast
87 West Main
Street
Westborough,
Phone
508-836-5546 ,
Fax: 508-836-3186 email:
Deborah@sleighmakerinn.com
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The Writer's Room The Writer's Room honors Westborough native Esther Forbes. Pulitzer Prize winning author Esther Forbes was born in Westborough June 28, 1891. It is decorated in light colors with period pieces including a grape fingered ladies chair with original upholstery and a dark cherry Queen Anne style queen size bed. This room is flooded with light in the morning.. Rate for the Writers Room is $99.00 plus tax Click on photos below for a larger view. |
(Esther Forbes Circa 1902)
Esther Forbes wrote Mirror for Witches in 1928, and Miss Marvel in 1935. In 1937 she wrote Paradise, a book about the early settlements in New England.
She published two pictorial essay books, The Boston Book, in 1947, and America's Paul Revere, in 1948. Rainbow on the Road, published in 1954.
Published in 1938, The General's Lady, and in 1942 Paul Revere and the World He Lived In, was published. It won the Pulitzer Prize in history for that year.
Johnny Tremain: A novel for Young and Old was published in 1943. Johnny Tremain was unique because it told the story of the American Revolution through the eyes of a boy, not a leader of the Revolution.
The Running of the Tide, published in 1959, follows the history of Salem as a port. It won the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Novel Award that year. MGM bought the rights for the book and Clark Gable was supposed to play the lead. MGM had financial problems at the time, so the movie was not made.
Esther died on August 12, 1967.