biography
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Sandoz, Mari
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popular name of Marie Susette, married name Macumber
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| female
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| lived:
| (1901–66)
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| biography:
| Writer and historian, born in Sheridan Co, Nebraska, USA. The daughter of Swiss emigrants, she grew up on the family ranch, and lost the use of an eye due to snow-blindness when 15. After completing the eighth grade, she skipped high school and became a teacher. She briefly attended a business school and studied intermittently at the University of Nebraska (1922–31). She researched the history of the Sioux Indians, and was an editor of historical periodicals (1927–35), and after settling in New York City she still maintained her ties to the family ranch. Noted as a biographer, novelist, and historian, her work usually drew on the life of the Great Plains, and two of her best-known non-fiction works are Cheyenne Autumn (1953) and The Cattlemen: From the Rio Grande across the Far Marias (1958). Miss Morissa (1955) and The Horsecatcher (1956) are among her most admired novels. |
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