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Borghild Dahl

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Borghild Dahl


Born
in Minneapolis, MN, The United States
February 06, 1890

Died
February 20, 1984

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Borghild Margrethe Dahl was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Norwegian immigrants Peder Mogens Dahl and Ingeborg Knudsdatter Haugseth from the Rendal area of Hedmark in the 1880s.

Despite severely impaired vision since birth, she attended college and received her Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Minnesota. Dahl earned an M.A. at Columbia University and was awarded a scholarship to study in Norway. In 1924 she became the first woman of a foreign country to be selected Norsk Akademiker at the University of Oslo. During the 1930s she taught Journalism and Norwegian at Augustana College and lectured widely before finally facing what seemed like a hopeless setback when she lost what little vision she had.

Then an operation in 1943 impro
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Average rating: 4.11 · 397 ratings · 107 reviews · 29 distinct worksSimilar authors
I Wanted to See

4.10 avg rating — 324 ratings — published 1947 — 5 editions
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Under This Roof

4.68 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1962 — 3 editions
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Finding My Way

4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1972 — 7 editions
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Karen

3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1947
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The Daughter

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4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1956
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Happy All My Life

3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1982
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Homecoming

4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1953
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Rikk of the Rendal Clan

3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1968
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I wanted to see,

4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1974 — 10 editions
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Stowaway to America

4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1959 — 6 editions
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“Dear Lord,' I whisper, 'Our Father in Heaven, I thank Thee. I thank Thee.”
Borghild Dahl, I Wanted to See