Harriette Louisa Simpson Arnow

Born: 1908   Wayne County
Died: 1986
Parents: Elias Thomas Simpson, Mollie Jane Simpson
Spouse: Harold B. Arnow
Children: Marcella Jane, Thomas Louis
Address(es):
Last Known
Ann Arbor , MI

Writings

Image Title Genre Audience Publisher Date
The Doll Maker
- Television movie
Fiction Adult American Broadcasting Company 1984
Old Burnside Non Fiction , Biography Adult Lexington, KY : University of Kentucky Press 1977
The Kentucky trace; a novel of the American Revolution Historical Fiction Adult New York: Knopf 1973
The Weedkiller's Daughter
- Explores the secret world of a 15 year old girl in a Detroit suburb. A novel about two American preoccupations: suburbia and teenagers.
Michigan Adult New York : Knopf 1970
Seedtime on the Cumberland
- The settling of southern Kentucky and middle Tennessee from pre-Revolutionary times to the beginning of the nineteenth century is described in everyday detail.
Non Fiction , History Adult New York: Macmillan 1963
The Doll Maker
- A family from the hills of Kentucky searches for new roots in wartime (1940s) industrial Detroit
Historical Fiction , Michigan Adult New York: Macmillan 1954
Hunter's Horn
- (Publication Years: 1949, reprint 1979) Re-released by Michigan State University Press, 1997.
Fiction Adult New York: Macmillan 1949
Mountain Path Historical Fiction Adult Lexington, KY : University Press of Kentucky 1936
What is the aim or goal of your writing: 2nd ed. says, "Mrs. Arnow writes novels longhand sitting in the breezeway where she cannot hear the telephone." Refering to a summer job in a small resort near Petosky, "I found myself in a delightful world of blue water, blue skies, white birches, stump fences, swamps, and with leisure to enjoy it all."

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: No

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author

Education:

Degree Institution Location Date
Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) Calvin College Grand Rapids , MI 1929

Career:

Position Organization Location Date
Teacher Pulaski County Schools 1933 -1939
Teacher, Housewife, Author
- Became acquainted with a newspaper reporter in Petoskey, Michigan who became husband

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