Street, Julian Leonard (1879-1947). American writer. Born in Chicago, IL, Street graduated from Ridley College, a boys’ preparatory school located in St. Catharines, ON, Canada, in 1896. In 1899, Street began reporting for the New York Mail and Express and took charge of the dramatic department in 1900. The same year, he married Ada Hilt, with whom he had two children and coauthored Tide (1926), a novel published shortly after her death. Street later married Marguerite Skibeness in 1930. Among his other works are The Most Interesting American (1915), an assessment of Theodore Roosevelt, The Country Cousin (1917), a comedy coauthored with Booth Tarkington, and “Mr. Bisbee’s Princess” (1925), a short story which won the O. Henry Award. Street was also a well-known authority on food and wine. For New York City wine merchant Bellows Co., he wrote an irregularly-published four-page pamphlet on wine, which Cather read and which disposed her to strike up a correspondence with him when he wrote asking her to autograph copies of her books.

Guizot, François Pierre Guillaume (1787-1874). French historian and politician. Born in Nîmes, France, François Guizot and his family fled to Geneva, Switzerland, after his father was killed during the Reign of Terror. In 1805 he returned to France, and in 1812 he was appointed professor of history at the University of Paris. He combined historical and political activity, publishing histories of France, England, and Europe, and serving successively as minister of education, minister of foreign affairs, and, in 1847-48, prime minister. In 1939 Cather noted reading Guizot’s history of France (probably that of 1872-76) along with Michelet’s history.

Street, Ane Ingeborg Marguerite Skibeness (1899-1997) (“Margot Andre”). American theater worker; wife of Julian Street. Born in Tacoma, WA, daughter of Norwegian immigrants Knute B. Skibeness and Caroline Reed Skibeness, Marguerite Skibeness attended the State College of Washington, the National University of Mexico, and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Around 1923 she moved to New York City, working on the technical side of the theater business, using the name Margot Andre. She also directed the Lighthouse Players of the New York Association for the Blind for several years before her marriage, in May 1930, to writer Julian Street. Marguerite Street appears to have known Cather through her husband. They lived in Princeton, NJ, for many years; she later donated her husband’s papers to Princeton University.