The White

TitleThe White
Year of Publication2002
Publication TypeNovel
Number of Pages or Episodes219 p.
LanguageEnglish
AuthorsLarsen, Deborah
PublisherAlfred A. Knopf
CityNew York
Keywordscaptives of Native Americans; French and Indian War; Genesee River Valley; Mary Jemison (1743-1833); Native Americans; pioneers
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