| Mari
Sandoz |
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| Nationality - American |
Profession - Author |
| Date of birth - 11 May 1896
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Date of death - 1966 |
| Place of birth
- near Hay Springs : Sheridan County, Nebraska |
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Mari Sandoz was born at Sandoz Post Office, Running Water Precinct, Sheridan County, Nebraska, on May 11, 1896.
She was educated in her home by her father, until the age of nine when she was sent to attend the public school district. Her inability to speak English somewhat limited her early education, but she learned the language and attended school irregularly until the age of sixteen.
Upon reaching her sixteenth birthday, she had to quit school and help support the family. This she did by teaching in rural schools in Western Nebraska. During this time she was married for a short time, after which she entered the University of Nebraska in 1922 as a special adult student.
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In the following years she worked as a reader in the English Department, proofreader and researcher at the Nebraska State Historical Society, and associate editor for School Executive Magazine. The campus magazine Prairie Schooner was regularly the recipient of her further literary efforts. It was not until the death of her father, who strongly opposed her writing career, that she began to publish under the name of Mari Sandoz.
Much of her writing, including her biography of Crazy Horse (1942) and the epic Cheyenne Autumn (1953), reflect her close relationship with the Great Plains Indians and the confidence they had in her understanding and recounting their history. These books reveal her wealth of knowledge of and sympathy with the troubled evolution of the Indian civilization.
Mari Sandoz, in spite of failing health, spent her later years actively writing, lecturing, and visiting the land and people she wrote about. She died of cancer in New York in March 1966, and was returned for burial on the family farm near Gordon, Nebraska. |
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