Maude Meagher

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Maude Meagher (8 April 1895[1] – 1977[2][3]) was an American novelist.

Biography

Maude Meagher was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Rev. H.A. Meagher and Anne Maude Tomlinson. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1917, where she met her lifelong friend Catherine Urner.

Meagher became a reporter for the

Yang Kuei-fei
telling how Po Chu'i (Bo Juyi) came to write his famous poem "Everlasting Sorrow" about Yang. In 1934, she wrote "The Green Scamander," a novel about the Trojan War from the viewpoint of the Amazons. She is the author of Fantastic Traveller (1931), the tale of a young man living in a world of his dreams.

With her friend Carolyn Smiley, Meagher started publishing World Youth magazine. They ran the magazine out of an adobe house called "Casa Tierra" which they built and lived in.[7] When it was completed in 1947, it was reportedly the largest secular adobe in North America. They wrote of their experience in a book entitled How We Built An Adobe House For World Youth.[8] Because of the acoustics, which he considered ideal, their friend famed violinist Yehudi Menuhin loved to play the violin in the great room.[3]

Novels

  1. Copper Mountain: Adventurous Days Among the Eskimos (1925)
  2. White Jade (1930)
  3. Fantastic Traveller (1931)
  4. The Green Scamander (1934)

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b Johnson, p.6
  2. ^ Grant & Clute, p.23
  3. ^ a b Johnson, p.192
  4. ^ Johnson, p.10
  5. ^ Johnson, p.11
  6. ^ Meagher, Maude (1925). Copper Mountain: Adventurous Days ...
  7. ^ Cook, Mary Ann (October 23, 2002). "Saratoga's Casa Tierra: At one with the earth". Saratoga News. Retrieved 2008-07-26.
  8. ^ Johnson, p.191

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