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Lillian Nicholson Shearon
actress, writer
- Birth name:
- Lillian Nicholson
- Born:
- 1877-10-07, Kentucky, United States of America
- Died:
- 1961-02-27, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
- Professions:
- actress, writer
Biography
Born beneath Kentucky skies on 7 October 1877, Lillian Nicholson Shearon first tasted the footlights as an actress before swapping curtain-calls for crisp manuscript pages. She inked Civil-War drama into silent life with *Sam Davis, the Hero of Tennessee* (1915) and then tightened heartstrings two years later through *A Mute Appeal* (1917). Off-screen she shared her name—and likely more than a few story ideas—with husband W.B. Shearon. Her final exit came quietly in Nashville, Tennessee, on 27 February 1961, closing a life lived between spotlight glow and writers’ lamplight.
