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Profile of Margaret Craven
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Margaret Craven |
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13th March 1901 |
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Helena, Montana, USA |
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Margaret Craven (March 13, 1901 – July 19, 1980) is an American author.
Born in Helena, Montana, Craven grew up in Sacramento, California. After graduating from Stanford University she worked for a time as a journalist and by 1930 was writing short stories that were sold to a number of national magazines. She continued writing short stories for more than three decades and in the 1960s wrote about the plight of the Kwakwaka'wakw First Nations people of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. This led to her novel I Heard the Owl Call My Name that told the story of a young vicar who learns about the meaning of life when he is sent to a Native parish in British Columbia. First published in Canada in 1967, it was not until 1973 when the book was picked up by an American publisher. Released to wide acclaim, I Heard the Owl Call My Name reached No.1 on the New York Times bestseller list. In the year of its American release, the book was adapted to the screen by Gerald Di Pego as a CBS television movie of the same title.
Bibliography:
- I Heard the Owl Call My Name (1967)
- Walk Gently This Good Earth (1977)
- Again Calls the Owl (1980)
- The Home Front (1981)
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