R.I.P. Janet M. Stevenson, 96 (in June) history writer/biographer
Lenona
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(obit, with photo)
From Contemporary Authors:
"Like many other women, I carried during what are usually considered
the 'best years of your life,' responsibilities that competed for the
time and energy that might have gone into writing. I raised two sons
(who seem to me worth every erg of the energy they absorbed) and I
helped two quite different husbands achieve at least part of their
life goals. I also spent a lot of those years fighting as a citizen to
avert the disaster that seemed to me to hang over not only our
country, but our human race.
"I learned a lot in that process of living, but I used up those best
writin years with not nearly enough to show for them. Now I am trying
to use the not-best years--with plenty of time, but not as much
energy--to put what I learned into literary or dramatic form. And I
find I am still trying to avert the same omen, convinced at last that
writing a book (or a play) that helps people to fee themselves inside
other people is the way I should be doing it."
WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:
Weep No More: A Novel, Viking, 1957.
The Ardent Years: A Novel, Viking, 1960.
Painting America's Wildlife: John James Audubon (juvenile biography),
Kingston House, 1961.
Marian Anderson: Singing to the World (juvenile biography),
Encyclopaedia Britannica Press, 1963.
Sisters and Brothers: A Novel, Crown, 1966.
Pioneers in Freedom: Adventures in Courage (juvenile history), Reill &
Lee, 1969.
Spokesman for Freedom: The Life of Archibald Grimke (juvenile
biography), Crowell-Collier, 1969.
Woman Aboard (travel), Crown, 1969, new edition, Chandler & Sharp,
1981.
Soldiers in the Civil Rights War: Adventures in Courage (juvenile
history), Reilly & Lee, 1971.
The Montgomery Bus Boycott, December, 1955: American Blacks Demand an
End to Segregation (juvenile history), F. Watts, 1971.
Women's Rights (juvenile history), F. Watts, 1972.
The School Segregation Cases (Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
and Others): The United States Supreme Court Rules on Racially
Separate Public Education (juvenile history), F. Watts, 1973.
"The Third President" (drama), first produced at Laboratory Theatre,
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 1976.
The Undiminished Man: A Political Biography of Robert Walker Kenny,
Chandler & Sharp, 1980.
(Contributor) A Sense of History: The Best Writing from the Pages of
American Heritage, American Heritage Press/Houghton, 1985.
Departure, Harcourt, 1985.
"Also author of plays "Declaration" and "Counter-Attack," in
collaboration with Philip Stevenson, and "Weep No More." Author of
motion picture scripts, short stories, and reading texts."
Lenona.