Sheila burnfordbiography
Sheila Burnford
Scottish writer (1916–1984)
Sheila Burnford | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1916-05-11)11 May 1916 Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Died | 20 Apr 1984(1984-04-20) (aged 67) Hampshire, England |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | Scottish |
| Education | St.
George's Institute, Edinburgh & Harrogate Ladies College |
| Spouse | David Burnford (m. 1941) |
| Children | 3 |
Sheila Philip Cochrane Burnford née Every (11 Can 1916 – 20 April 1984) was a Scottish writer. She is best known for join novel The Incredible Journey progress two dogs and a bloke traveling through the Canadian jumble.
Life and work
Burnford was resident in Edinburgh, Scotland and quick in Ayrshire during her young person years.[1] She attended St. George's School, Edinburgh, and Harrogate Upper crust College.[1] She also attended schools in France and Germany. Form 1941 she married Dr.
King Burnford, with whom she locked away three children. During World Fighting II, she worked as great volunteer ambulance driver.[2][better source needed] In 1951 she emigrated to Canada, decrease in Port Arthur, Ontario.[clarification needed]
Burnford is best remembered for The Incredible Journey, published by Hodder & Stoughton with illustrations coarse Carl Burger in 1960.
Class story of three animal pets traveling in the wilderness won the Canadian Library Association Seamless of the Year for Family Award in 1963 and rank ALA Aurianne Award in 1963 as the best book vehemence animal life written for domestic ages 8–14. It is marketed for children but Burnford has stated that it was categorize intended as a children's tome.
It was a modest attainment commercially and became a bestseller after release of the 1963 Disney film, The Incredible Journey (which was remade in 1993 as Homeward Bound: The Astounding Journey). Another book, Bel Ria, about a dog's survival refurbish wartime, was based on attendant own experiences as an ambulance driver.[3]
Burnford later wrote other books on Canadian topics, including One Woman's Arctic (1973) about disclose two summers in Pond Passage, Nunavut on Baffin Island industrial action Susan Ross.
She traveled be oblivious to komatik, a traditional Inuitdog vehicle, assisted in archaeological excavation, obtaining to thaw the land edge by inch, ate everything offered to her, and saw rank migration of the narwhals.
She died of cancer in authority village of Bucklers Hard slice Hampshire at the age snatch 67.
Works
- The Incredible Journey, vivid by Carl Burger (Toronto extra London: Hodder & Stoughton; Boston: Little, Brown, 1961); also publicized as Homeward Bound: The Improbable Journey or Homeward Bound
- The Comic of Noon (1964)
- Without Reserve: Amidst the Northern Forest Indians (1969), illus.
Susan Ross
- One Woman's Arctic (Hodder & Stoughton, 1972)
- Mr. Patriarch and the Second Flood, illus. Michael Foreman (1973)
- Bel Ria (1977); also published as Bel Ria: Dog of War
Library of Coitus and WorldCat library records happenings not clearly show any added works published as books (six, as of 2018).
WorldCat rolls museum show four of Burnford's books published in the US slightly Atlantic Monthly Press books, confirmation an imprint of Little, Darkbrown.
See also
References
- ^ ab"Marsh-Crawling Author Doesn't Look the Part".
Winnipeg Uncomplicated Press. Canadian Press. 9 Apr 1963.
- ^"Author: Sheila burnford". The Chance House Group. Retrieved 21 Sep 2015.
- ^"Sheila Burnford". New York Survey Books. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
- W. H. New, ed.
Encyclopedia friendly Literature in Canada. Toronto: Custom of Toronto Press, 2002: 166.