8x10 B&W vintage photograph signed "Best wishes to Jim Wiggins-Marchette Chute" in black fountain pen ink. Minor waviness and wear. Excellent condition. (1909-1994) Marchette Chute was an American writer. As a biographer, she specialized in English literary figures; she published biographies of Geoffrey Chaucer, Ben Jonson, and William Shakespeare. As a children's writer, she specialized in tales written during the periods described in her biographies, and in rhyming verses for children.Chute was seen by her colleagues as a significant writer of her day. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was elected president of the PEN American Center (a post her sister Beatrice Joy also held). She published a demi-centennial history of the Center, PEN American Center: A History of the First 50 Years, in 1972. She also published a dual biography of George Herbert and Robert Herrick, Two Gentle Men, in 1959; it was a National Book Award finalist in 1960. She died in a Montclair, New Jersey nursing home on May 6, 1994. Her papers are now part of the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi.This lot came from the Jim Wiggins collection we purchased in July 2022. Jim Wiggins accumulated the most unique and valuable autograph collection over a period of 70-plus years. He obtained his collection either in person or by writing to persons of fame and notoriety. Comes with a full Letter of Authenticity from Todd Mueller Authentics.Comes with a full Letter of Authenticity from Todd Mueller Authentics.