Adria Locke Langley (1899 – August 14, 1983) was an American writer best known for her first novel, published in 1945, the best sellerA Lion Is in the Streets based on the life ofHuey Long. It was made into a film of thesame name in 1953. She also was a fervent supporter of the repeal ofProhibition.[1][2][3]
Locke was born inIowa, 1899, as the youngest of three children. When she was young her family moved toStanton, Nebraska and that is where she grew up. Her father William Locke, was president of the Omaha livestock market and a Quaker. He had certain ideas of what a woman should be. Because of this Adria's grandfather, Thomas Glendenning, took over in teaching her what would later be a great social consciousness.
Adria was sent toFremont College, in Nebraska, where she spent two years earning a teaching certificate. She was too young to qualify as a teacher under Nebraska State laws so she entered into Northwestern University. She was suspended for a séance.
Locke married while still in her teen years and got a divorce in 1929. With only aboutUS$230 in her pocket to support her and her eight-month-old daughter she began to travel through the south selling merchandise control systems to department stores. She took up the habit of visiting the town hall meetings wherever she happened to be and became active in the movement for prohibition reform.[4]
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