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.

Bloom, Sarah J. (1889-1961). Cather's personal secretary. Born in New York in 1889 to Russian immigrants Solomon and Bertha Bloom, Sarah J. Bloom worked for Cather from some time in the 1920s until Cather's death and continued to work for Edith Lewis on matters pertaining to Cather's literary estate thereafter. Bloom typed Cather's literary manuscripts and managed Cather's correspondence, typing dictated letters and sometimes responding for Cather when she was traveling. Bloom’s work for Cather supplemented full-time office employment in New York City (for many years she worked for the New York State Public Service Commission). She thus came to Cather and Lewis's apartment on weekends to take dictation, pick up and deliver typescripts, and deliver typed letters for signature. She died in New York city in 1961.