Happy 95th, Janet Stevenson! (Playwright/biographer, "John..

She lives in Astoria, Oregon.

http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv86534
(long biography)

Excerpt:

"In 1986, in her mid-70's Stevenson was elected Mayor of Hammond,
Oregon, a small town near the mouth of the Columbia, where Lewis and
Clarke landed when they retreated from the Washington side of the
great river."

WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:


Weep No More: A Novel, Viking, 1957.


The Ardent Years: A Novel, Viking, 1960.
Painting America's Wildlife: John James Audubon (juvenile biography),
Kingston House, 1961.
Marian Anderson: Singing to the World (juvenile biography),
Encyclopaedia Britannica Press, 1963.
Sisters and Brothers: A Novel, Crown, 1966.
Pioneers in Freedom: Adventures in Courage (juvenile history), Reill &
Lee, 1969.
Spokesman for Freedom: The Life of Archibald Grimke (juvenile
biography), Crowell-Collier, 1969.
Woman Aboard (travel), Crown, 1969, new edition, Chandler & Sharp,
1981.


Soldiers in the Civil Rights War: Adventures in Courage (juvenile
history), Reilly & Lee, 1971.
The Montgomery Bus Boycott, December, 1955: American Blacks Demand an
End to Segregation (juvenile history), F. Watts, 1971.
Women's Rights (juvenile history), F. Watts, 1972.
The School Segregation Cases (Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
and Others): The United States Supreme Court Rules on Racially
Separate Public Education (juvenile history), F. Watts, 1973.
"The Third President" (drama), first produced at Laboratory Theatre,
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 1976.


The Undiminished Man: A Political Biography of Robert Walker Kenny,
Chandler & Sharp, 1980.
(Contributor) A Sense of History: The Best Writing from the Pages of
American Heritage, American Heritage Press/Houghton, 1985.
Departure, Harcourt, 1985.


"Also author of plays "Declaration" and "Counter-Attack," in
collaboration with Philip Stevenson, and "Weep No More." Author of
motion picture scripts, short stories, and reading texts."



Lenona.