The White

Year of Publication
2002
Publication Type
Novel
Number of Pages or Episodes
219 p.
Language
English
Contributors Author: Deborah Larsen
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
City
New York
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Abstract
A novelized biography of Mary Jemison, kidnapped by Indians as an adolescent and adopted by Seneca sisters. She assimilated into Seneca culture and later chose not to return to white society.
Author Biography
Deborah Larsen, born and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota, is Professor Emerita at Gettysburg College where she taught writing in several genres and held the Merle S. Boyer Chair in Poetry. Deborah has been a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Writing at Stanford University and was in residence at Yale University as the annual Wallace Stevens Fellow. She lives in Green Valley, Arizona.
Time
1758-1833
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