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Jan Hudson


Born
in Calgary, Canada
April 27, 1954

Died
January 01, 1990

Genre
Young Adult


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Jan Hudson, a Canadian author of historical fiction, wrote only two novels during her short life. She died at the age of thirty-six in 1990 of respiratory failure due to viral pneumonia. However, she left a lasting message for young girls about overcoming adversity to find their true place in the world. Hudson's two novels, Sweetgrass and Dawn Rider, exemplify her interest in "social anthropology--the little things that make up most people's lives," as she stated in a 1989 Publishers Weekly interview with Bella Stander. She conveyed these details by using the history of the Blackfoot Nation as her background. "Both [n ...more

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Average rating: 3.75 · 526 ratings · 58 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors
Sweetgrass
3.77 avg rating — 441 ratings — published 1984 — 14 editions
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Dawn Rider
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What's the Name o...: SOLVED. Children's Historical fiction. Young Indian girl is forced to leave her family/ tribe/ village due to a disease outbreak (smallpox or leprosy?). Read in 1986-1987. [s] 9 801 Sep 12, 2021 01:32PM