Jean Sutton

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Eugenia "Jean" Geneva Sutton (born Eugenia Geneva Hansen on July 5, 1915 in Denmark , Wisconsin ; died on May 29, 2003 ) was an American science fiction writer who, with her husband Jeff Sutton, wrote six novels, the mainly aimed at young people.

Life

She was the daughter of Christopher Hansen and Mary Honora, née Baumgart. She studied from 1934 to 1937 at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and then at the University of California at Los Angeles , where she graduated in 1940 with a bachelor's degree in economics . She then worked in human resources at US Steel in Los Angeles, then from 1942 at a construction company in San Diego , from 1945 she worked as a lathe operator at Douglas Aircraft in Santa Monica , then as a social worker in Los Angeles and from 1949 to 1952 she was secretary of San Diego City Council . In 1959, she received her Masters in Education from San Diego State University . From 1958 to 1971 she was a high school social studies teacher in the Grossmont Union High School District in San Diego.

She had been married to avionics consultant Jeff Sutton since 1941 and had a son (born 1946) and a daughter (born 1952) with him. Jeff Sutton had started writing science fiction novels in 1958. The first novel written by Jean Sutton in collaboration with her husband, The River , appeared in 1966, in which the experiences of her husband during the war in the Pacific are processed, in particular during the Battle of Guadalcanal . The following books were science fiction for teenagers that are considered exciting and lively, but conventional SF. These include The Beyond (1968, German as The World of the Outcasts ), in which ESP gifted people are banished to a prison planet, and Lord of the Stars (1969), a space opera in which a youthful hero against a galactic alien empire fights. Two of these novels have also been translated into German.

Her husband died in 1979. Sutton died in 2003 at the age of 87.

bibliography

All novels in collaboration with Jeff Sutton.

  • The River (1966)
  • H-Bomb Over America (1967)
  • The Beyond (1968)
    • German: The world of the outcasts. Moewig (Terra Nova # 82), 1969.
  • The Programmed Man (1968)
    • German: The programmed human. Moewig (Terra Taschenbuch # 169), 1969.
  • Lord of the Stars (1969)
  • Alien from the Stars (1970)
  • The Boy Who Had the Power (1971)

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The year of birth is different: The Library of Congress and Francis J. Molson name 1916 and Robert Reginald has 1917. Here after SFE .
personal data
SURNAME Sutton, Jean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sutton, Eugenia Geneva (full name); Hansen, Eugenia Geneva (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Denmark , Wisconsin
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 2003