Mari Sandoz (11 May, 1896 – 10 March, 1966) was a novelist, biographer and teacher from Nebraska. Ms. Sandoz wrote a lot about poisoner life and the Plains Indians.
- Ms. Sandoz was the oldest of six children. Their parents with Swiss immigrants.
- As a child she worked hard on the farm as her father didn’t like her reading and writing (he was also known to be a violent man).
- At age 17 Ms. Sandoz finally manage to graduate from 8th grade and secretly took the rural teacher’s exam. She started teaching country schools without attending high-school.
- Even without a high-school diploma she continued to write and eventually enrolled at the University of Nebraska.
- Sandoz claimed to have received over 1,000 rejection slips to her short stories.
- She went to visit her dying father, who asked her to write his life story as his last request. The result was the book Old Jules.
- Every major publishing house rejected Old Jules, but Ms. Sandoz kept revising it until she had finally won a non-fiction contest held by Atlantic Press.
- In 1942 Ms. Sandoz published Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas, a biography of the Lakota leader. This book is considered her greatest work and ahead of its time.
- Sandoz always liked to encourage other writers and held summer writing workshops in different institutions.
- In 1966 Ms. Sandoz passed away from bone cancer. She is buried on a hillside overlooking her family’s ranch in Nebraska.
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