Happy Birthday, Andre (Alice)
And one more birthday: Alice Mary Norton, who wrote as Andre Norton and also Andrew North, was born today in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1912. Norton wrote more than 130 novels (and I think I've read them all) in her 70 years as a writer, as well as nearly a hundred short stories. She was the first woman to receive the Grand Master Award from the World Science Fiction Society. A month before her death in March 2005 at age 93, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America created the Andre Norton Award for an outstanding work of science fiction or fantasy for young adults. Her books were among the first science fiction I ever read as child, and I still like them - especially the Solar Queen novels and the Beast Master books (no real relation to the movies no matter what they say). Her books were the first ones I remember featuring non-white and non-male protagonists, too.Labels: birthdays, entertainment, race
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<-- Older Post ^ Home Newer Post -->Love the photo, she looks full of secrets, juicy cosmic ones!
You asked about books on First Nations peoples. One of the most inclusive of all the geographical regions on the continent is from the National Geographic Society, called "The World of the American Indian." Books by Thomas Mails are good too, and focus more on the spiritual, particuarly for the plains and SW peoples.
Oops, I answered the wrong commenter question about books on native culture. Well, maybe you're interested, too...
I'm always interested in books.
Norton wrote several books with Native American protagonists (Beast Master series and ... dang it. The one about the Lakota who brings horses to an oppressed alien culture, can't remember the name of it now), so maybe that's why it cropped up in your mind here?
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