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Ouida Sebestyen


Born
in Vernon, Texas, The United States
February 13, 1924

Genre
Young Adult


Ouida Sebestyen, nee Dockery, was born February 13, 1924, in Vernon, TX. She married Adam Sebestyen in 1960 and had one son. She attended the U. of Colorado. She began writing at age eighteen, but did not publish her first book, Words by Heart until 1979. Part of this novel had originally appeared as a short story in the magazine 'Ingenue' in 1968. The book was well received, and Ms. Sebestyen has continued to write fiction for young adults. She draws her inspiration, and often her setting, from the American West, especially its contrasting harshness and beauty, and the demands it places upon an individual's survival. While not all her novels are set in a sharply defined Western setting, throughout all of her books she focuses on characteri ...more

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Average rating: 3.65 · 1,584 ratings · 258 reviews · 15 distinct works • Similar authors
The Girl in the Box
3.65 avg rating — 1,090 ratings — published 1988 — 11 editions
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Words By Heart
3.69 avg rating — 386 ratings — published 1979 — 20 editions
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Out of Nowhere
3.66 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 1994 — 7 editions
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Far from Home
3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1980 — 3 editions
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On fire
2.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1985 — 4 editions
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IOU's
2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1982 — 2 editions
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Words by Heart: Novel-Ties ...
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私は覚えていない (心の児童文学館シリーズ (2-4))
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