sentences:  He said that they were "clumsy, incoherent tripe" but added that "every so often there's a streak of fire on your pages," which encouraged her.Her first published writing, in the early 1920s, was about efforts to restore the island of Kahoolawe after years of drought and overgrazing.She married California real estate agent Alfred Lathrop Ball on December 25, 1932 in Ventura County, California.