Frances Gaither (1889–1955)
Auteur de Double Muscadine
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Frances Gaither
The red cock crows 4 exemplaires
The fatal river,: The life and death of La Salle, 1 exemplaire
Den röde hanen gal 1 exemplaire
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- Nom canonique
- Gaither, Frances
- Date de naissance
- 1889-05-21
- Date de décès
- 1955-10-28
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Somerville, Tennessee, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Corinth, Mississippi, USA
New York, New York, USA - Études
- Mississippi State College for Women
- Professions
- teacher
biographer
children's book author
novelist - Courte biographie
- Frances Jones was the granddaughter of a slave owner. Her family moved from Tennessee to Mississippi during her childhood. In 1912 she married Rice Gaither, a journalist with the New York Times. Frances Gaither gained fame for her work The Fatal River: The Life and Death of La Salle (1931), a biography of the French explorer Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, the discoverer of the Mississippi River. During the 1930s, she wrote popular books for children. She is best known for the three novels she wrote about American slavery, Follow the Drinking Gourd (1940), The Red Cock Crows (1944), and, Double Muscadine (1949).
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 7
- Membres
- 34
- Popularité
- #413,653
- Évaluation
- 1.0
- ISBN
- 1