Nancy Freedman

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Nancy Lois Freedman (born Nancy Mars on July 4, 1920 in Evanston , Illinois ; died on August 10, 2010 in Greenbrae , California ) was an American writer. She is best known for the also filmed novel Mrs. Mike , which she wrote with her husband Benedict Freedman .

Life

Freedman was the daughter of surgeon Hartley Farnham Mars and reporter Brillianna, nee Hintermeister. She studied at several universities in Southern California without a degree and attended the Art Institute of Chicago for two semesters . In 1940 she married the writer Benedict Freedman, later a mathematician and professor at Occidental College in Los Angeles , with whom she had a son, the mathematician Michael Freedman , and two daughters. At the time, however, she was a budding actress and dancer, her husband a budding screenwriter, and both were trying to break into Hollywood.

In 1947 she and her husband Mrs. Mike published a fictional biography based on the life story of Katherine Mary O'Fallon (1899-1954), who married Mike Flannigan, a sergeant of Canada's Royal North-West Mounted , in the early 20th century Police , and leads a life full of privation in remote outposts in the provinces of British Columbia and Alberta . The book became a bestseller and was also made into a film in 1949 under the direction of Louis King . After this initial success, the couple wrote a total of ten books over the following decades, including two sequels by Mrs. Mike .

In addition to the collaborations with her husband, Freedman wrote a number of his own novels, including the science fiction novel Joshua: Son of None (1973), in which a clone is created from a tissue sample of the murdered John F. Kennedy , and thus one of the first SF novels in which cloning plays a role. According to her husband, much of her work can be described as "flaming feminist ". These include, in particular, Sappho: The Tenth Muse (1998), a novel about the life of Sappho , and Mary, Mary Quite Contrary , a novel about the relationship between Mary Shelley and her dead mother, Mary Wollstonecraft , both important characters in the early days Women's rights movement in the 19th century.

After an episode of rheumatic fever at the age of three, after which she struggled with health problems for life, she died in 2010 at the age of 90 of complications from giant cell arteritis .

bibliography

  • Mary, Mary Quite Contrary (1968)
  • Joshua: Son of None (1973)
  • The Immortals (1977)
  • Prima donna (1981)
  • The Seventh Stone (1992)
  • Sappho: The Tenth Muse (1998)
with Benedict Freedman
  • Mrs. Mike, the Story of Katherine Mary Flannigan (1947)
    • German: Mrs. Mike. Translated by Marianne Schön. Zsolnay, Vienna & Hamburg 1949.
  • This and No More (1950)
  • The Spark and the Exodus (1954)
  • Lootville (1954)
  • Tresa (1954)
  • The Apprentice Bastard (1966)
  • Cyclone of Silence (1969)
  • The Search for Joyful: A Mrs. Mike Novel (2002)
  • Kathy Little Bird: A Mrs. Mike Novel (2003)

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  1. ↑ Dennis McLellan: Nancy Freedman dies at 90 , Los Angeles Times, August 22, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Freedman, Nancy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Freedman, Nancy Lois (full name); Mars, Nancy (maiden name); Freedman, Nancy Mars (alternative spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Evanston , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 2010
Place of death Greenbrae , California