Craven, Margaret (1901–1980)

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Craven, Margaret (1901–1980)

American novelist and journalist. Born Mar 13, 1901, in Helena, Montana; raised in Puget Sound area of Washington; died July 1980 in Sacramento, California; graduate of Stanford University with honors, 1924.

Worked for a San Jose newspaper; at 69, published the acclaimed I Heard the Owl Call My Name (1973), about a dying vicar sent to a remote Indian village in British Columbia, which was filmed for tv; also wrote Walk Gently This Good Earth (1977) and Again Calls the Owl (1980); short stories, published in popular magazines, were collected in The Home Front (1981).

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