Frances Parkinson Keyes was born in 1885 and died in 1970. Perhaps the most important element of her spiritual life was her conversion to Roman Catholicism, and the consequent Roman Catholic themes in her writing. She moved to New Orleans’ French Quarter in the 1950s and wrote several novels set in Louisiana, of which the murder mystery, Dinner at Antoine's, published in 1948, was the most successful. It combines Keyes' real world knowledge of politics (her husband was a United States senator) and of New Orleans social life with a classic murder mystery plot.
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