Margaret Craven

Margaret Craven (born March 13, 1901 in Helena , Montana , † July 19, 1980 in Sacramento ) was an American writer.

Life

Margaret Craven grew up in Sacramento, California . After graduating from Stanford University , she worked as a journalist for some time. From 1930 to 1960 the author wrote short stories for US magazines. In the early 1960s she studied the Indians of the Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl) tribe on Vancouver Island in the Canadian province of British Columbia .

Margaret Craven became famous for her novel I Heard the Owl, She Called My Name , which was published in Canada in 1967. In 1973, the year it was published in the United States, the novel reached number one on the New York Times bestseller list and was filmed for television under the original title by Daryl Duke with Tom Courtenay and Dean Jagger (1903-1991) in the leading roles.

Blinded by an accident, she wrote two more books, including her autobiography.

Works

• 1967 I heard the owl call my name. Doubleday, Garden City, NY 1973, ISBN 0385025866 .
  • German edition: I heard the owl, she called my name. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1976, ISBN 3-499-22786-X (1976 first edition in German, thereafter further German editions until 2001).
  • French edition: L'appel du hibou. Flammarion, Saint-Lauren 1974.
  • (More translations into Danish, Finnish, Swedish, Dutch, Spanish, Turkish)
• 1977 Walk gently this good Earth . Putnam, Garden City, NY, ISBN 0399120408 .
• 1980 Again calls the owl. Putnam, New York 1980, ISBN 0399124535 . (Autobiography, not a continuation of the content of her successful novel).
• 1981 The home front: collected stories. Putnam, New York 1981 ( posthumous ).

literature

• Wendy Rodseth, Margaret Craven: Notes on I heard the owl call my name. Hodder & Stoughton, Wynberg (Johannesburg) 1990, ISBN 0947054448 .

swell

• ABCBookWorld (with two photos)

Web links

• Literature by and about Margaret Craven in the catalog of the German National Library