Anna Lee Waldo
{{short description|American author, chemistry professor}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2011}}
{{infobox writer
|name=Anna Lee Waldo
|birth_date={{birth date and age|1925|2|16}}
|birth_place=Great Falls, Montana, U.S.
|occupation=Author
|genre=Historical fiction
|alma_mater=Montana State University
University of Maryland
|notable_works=Sacajawea (1979)
|spouse=Willis H. Waldo
|children=5
}}
Anna Lee Waldo (born February 16, 1925) is an American historical fiction author. She is most noted for her novel Sacajawea.
Biography
Anna Lee Waldo was born February 16, 1925, in Great Falls, Montana, and grew up in Whitefish.{{cite web |url=http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/w/anna-lee-waldo/ |title=Anna Lee Waldo |date=December 31, 2010 |work=Fantastic Fiction |location=Lancashire, UK |publisher=FantasticFiction |access-date=January 6, 2011}} She claims her interest in the subject of Native Americans began as a child when she collected spear points on the shores of Whitefish Lake in Montana and listened to stories of Blackfeet and Crow grandmothers. Growing up though, she was interested and had a talent for science; graduating from Montana State University majoring in chemistry. She attended the University of Maryland gaining a master's degree in organic chemistry, where she also met her future husband, Willis H. Waldo, a fellow chemist. They had five children together. Prior to her first novel, Sacajawea, she taught at the University of Dayton in Ohio.{{cite web |url=http://www.annaleewaldo.com/biography.htm |title=BIOGRAPHY of Anna Lee Waldo |last1=Waldo |first1=Anna Lee |authorlink1=Anna Lee Waldo |date=August 11, 2001 |access-date=January 4, 2011| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101208193220/http://annaleewaldo.com/biography.htm| archive-date= December 8, 2010 | url-status= live}} She has also taught chemistry at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California.{{Cite web
| title = Authors: Anna Lee Waldo
| work = Macmillan
| access-date = 2012-12-27
| url = http://us.macmillan.com/author/annaleewaldo
}}
It took Waldo ten years to write and research Sacajawea, a 1300+ page book, finally publishing it in 1978. This led to her second novel, Prairie, and finally to her Druid Circle series about a Welsh prince and his travel to North America in the 12th Century.
Literary works
- {{cite book |last1=Waldo |first1=Anna Lee |authorlink1=Anna Lee Waldo |title=Sacajawea |year=2003 |orig-year=1978 |publisher=Avon Books |location=New York |isbn=0-380-84293-9 |oclc=156873755 |url=https://archive.org/details/sacajawealewiscl00anna }}
- {{cite book |last1=Waldo |first1=Anna Lee |authorlink1=Anna Lee Waldo |title=Circle of stars |series=Druid Circle |year=2001 |publisher=St. Martin's Press |location=New York |isbn=0-312-20380-2 |oclc=46976523 |url=https://archive.org/details/circleofstars00wald }}
- {{cite book |last1=Waldo |first1=Anna Lee |authorlink1=Anna Lee Waldo |title=Circle of stones |series=Druid Circle |year=1999 |publisher=St. Martin's Press |location=New York |isbn=0-312-19843-4 |oclc=40305566 }}
- {{cite book |last1=Waldo |first1=Anna Lee |authorlink1=Anna Lee Waldo |title=Prairie : the legend of Charles Burton Irwin and the Y6 ranch |year=1986 |publisher=Berkley Books |location=New York |isbn=0-425-09670-X |oclc=14510874 }}
References
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External links
- {{cite web |url=http://www.annaleewaldo.com/ |title=Anna Lee Waldo |date=September 22, 2001 |access-date=January 4, 2011| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101231090735/http://annaleewaldo.com/| archive-date= December 31, 2010 | url-status= live}}
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Category:People from Great Falls, Montana
Category:Montana State University alumni
Category:University of Maryland, College Park alumni
Category:University of Dayton faculty
Category:American women chemists
Category:20th-century American novelists
Category:21st-century American novelists
Category:American historical novelists
Category:20th-century American women writers
Category:21st-century American women writers
Category:American women historical novelists