Alice Tisdale Hobart (January 28, 1882 – March 14, 1967) born Alice Nourse in Lockport, New York, was an American novelist. Her most famous book, Oil for the Lamps of China [1], which was also made into a film, drew heavily on her experiences as the wife of an American oil executive in China amid the turmoil of the overthrow of the Manchu Dynasty in 1912.
[upon returning to the US after having lived more than 20 years overseas] To those Americans who have lived outside their own country, homecoming is a poignantly arresting thing. I was one of them.