A bestseller, the novel was translated into 27 languages and made into a motion picture in 1949.
Set in northwest Canada, it is the story of Katherine Mary Flannigan, an invalid married to a Mountie. Benedict, although a professor of mathematics in his chosen career, followed in his father's footsteps, writing for radio as well as writing novels, plays, textbooks, and scholarly works.įreedman began to join her husband in his writing ventures in the early 1940's.
He was the son of David Freedman, a successful Broadway playwright. Freedman credits him for teaching her subtlety that she could apply to her style of writing.Īfter attending the Chicago Art Institute, Los Angeles City College, and the University of Southern California, where she usually would not complete courses, Freedman met and married Benedict Freedman on 29 June 1941. She also was granted the opportunity to act in famous plays such as Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello under the guidance of the great Austrian theatrical director, Max Reinhardt. While still a teenager, Freedman landed acting jobs, working in summer stock in Maine during the years 19. The lonely child would also invent stories based on children whose tombstones she discovered during visits to a graveyard with her grandmother. A succession of tutors was enlisted to teach her a variety of elementary school subjects, but the insistent child usually persuaded them only to read fiction to her. Although a recipient of dancing lessons at the age of seven, she was a sickly child who was forbidden to go to school. Kennedy, and Prima Donna (1981), a story of the trials and tribulations of an opera star.įreedman's childhood until the age of ten was a lonely one. Her most famous books include Joshua, Son of None (1973), a story about the cloning of John F. Mike (1947), Freedman has also written a number of novels on her own. Besides writing five plays and several novels with her husband, Benedict, including the worldwide bestseller Mrs. Nancy Freedman has written numerous books, each distinct from the others. and Brillianna Hintermeister Mars married Benedict Freedman, 1941 children: Johanna, Michael, Deborah
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