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Mari(e) (Susette) Sandoz | | Variant Name: |
Mari(e) (Susette) Sandoz, Marie Susette Sandoz, Mari Macumber | | Birth Date: |
May 11, 1896 | | Death Date: |
March 6, 1966 | | Nationality: |
American | | Ethnicity: |
Swiss | | Gender: |
Female |
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Biography of Mari(e) (Susette) Sandoz
4,067 words, approx. 14 pages
 In her novels, biographies, and histories Mari Sandoz immortalized the stories and recorded the voices she had heard as a child, including some distinctive but long-ignored Western voices. Her works anticipate many later concerns, such as Native...
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Biography of Mari(e) (Susette) Sandoz
3,655 words, approx. 12 pages
 The noted Western historian, novelist, and teacher Mari Sandoz was born Marie Susette Sandoz, the oldest child of Jules and Mary Fehr Sandoz, Swiss immigrants and homesteaders in the Niobrara River region of northwestern Nebraska. She grew up in a...


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Mari Sandoz Information
1,743 words, approx. 6 pages
 Marie Susette Sandoz (May 11, 1896 - March 10, 1966) was a novelist, biographer, lecturer, and teacher. She was one of Nebraska's foremost writers, and wrote extensively about pioneer life and the Plains...




Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Scott L. Greenwell
1,813 words, approx. 6 pages
 Mari Sandoz was a didactic writer. Because of her tendency toward instruction, she found much of American fiction—particularly romantic western novels—thin, "without anything of the push and throb of life, totally inconsequential." She liked bone and muscle in literature. She blamed what she considered the poor quality of domestic fiction on the American writers' tendency to conform to the commercial market, and waged a continuous battle herself against what she termed ...
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Critical Essay by Helen Winter Stauffer
1,683 words, approx. 6 pages
 Mari Sandoz is recognized as a novelist, historian, and biographer, as well as an authority on the Indians of the Great Plains. Her work varies in quality, her novels usually considered least successful, and her histories, particularly her biographies, most trenchant. In the latter she has fused her skill as a writer, her mastery of historical research, and her empathy for her subjects to create works of unique and lasting value. (p. 1) Mari seemed to make little conscious distinction between methods of wri...
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Critical Essay by Margaret Wallace
741 words, approx. 3 pages
 It is not altogether unusual, in these literate days, to come upon a first novel of artistic merit. But it is always bound to be something of an event when a first novel not only proves to be admirable on the score of craftmanship but also introduces to the ranks of contemporary novelists a new and original and arresting personality. This is what "Slogum House" does. While it is a first novel, and one to review with surprise and remember with pleasure, it is not a first book. Mari Sandoz...


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