Doerr, Harriet (1910–2002)
Doerr, Harriet (1910–2002)
American novelist. Born Harriet Green Huntington, April 8, 1910, in Pasadena, California; died Nov 24, 2002, in Pasadena; dau. of Howard Huntington; granddau. of Henry Edward Huntington (railroad magnate); attended Smith College, 1927; attended Stanford University, 1928–30, BA in European History, 1975; m. Albert Doerr (mining engineer), 1930 (died 1972); children: Michael Doerr (died 1995) and Martha Doerr Toppin.
In her 70s, published 1st novel, Stones for Ibarra (1984), the bestselling tome about a small Mexican village which won the American Book Award (an earlier name for the National Book Awards); also wrote Consider This, Senora (1993) and Tiger in the Grass (1995).
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NATIONALITY: Mexican
GENRE: Fiction, drama, nonfiction
MAJOR WORKS:
The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962)
Terra Nostra (1975)
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