Grant, Joan (Joan Marshall Kelsey)(1907-1989)

Author of various fictional works dealing with reincarnation that she claimed were partly biographical. Grant believed she had inherited her mother's psychic experiences, which allowed Grant to sense from an object the experiences and feelings of people who had handled it in the past. This turned her towards writing books she claimed were part historical novels but "far memories" of past times. In her first book, Winged Pharaoh (1937), Grant describes the life and death of Sekeeta, a princess of First Dynasty Egypt. In Return to Elysium (1947), she tells of a Greek girl for the second century C.E. In her book Many Lifetimes (1969), written in collaboration with her third husband, Dr. Denys Kelsey, Grant describes claimed memories of former existences revealed when she was hypnotized by her husband.

Sources:

Grant, Joan. Eyes of Horus. London: Methuen, 1942. New York: Arno Press, 1980.

——. Far Memory. Reprinted as Time Out of Mind, A Lot to Remember. New York: Arno Press, 1980.

——. Life as Carola. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1939; New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1940; New York: Arno Press, 1980.

——. Lord of the Horizon. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1943.

——. Return to Elysium. New York: Arno Press, 1980.

——. So Moses Was Born. London: Methuen, 1952; New York: Arno Press, 1980.

——. Winged Pharaoh. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1938.

Kelsey, Denys, and Joan Grant. Many Lifetimes. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1967.