Anya seyton biography

Anya Seton was.
Anya Seton was an American author of best-selling, exhaustively researched, romantic historical and biographical novels.
Anya Seton (January 23, 1904 – November 8, 1990) was the pen name of Ann Seton Chase, an American author of historical romances, or as she preferred they be.

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Anya Seton, A Writers Life
with Author Lucinda MacKethan

Anya Seton was the bestselling author of ten historical novels, including the masterpieces Katherine and The Winthrop Woman, which are still widely beloved over sixty years after their original publication. Yet there has never before been a book-length biography of this great American writer. Author Lucinda MacKethan, with the support of Seton’s daughters and unprecedented access to the novelist’s decades’ worth of journals detailing her writing throughout her career, has crafted an intimate look at the writer in her own words.

Ann Seton was born in 1904 the daughter of two celebrity writers: Ernest Thompson Seton, a renowned naturalist and illustrator, and Grace Gallatin Seton, a women’s suffrage leader who received medals for her volunteer work in France during World War I. The pair’s literary output gave them enduring fame, but as a teenager Ann explicitly rejected her parents’ careers—because, she said, they showed her the drudgery of a writer’s life. Still, she was always

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Anya Seton Biography

The novelist Anya Seton has received well deserved attention in a new biography by Lucinda H. MacKethan.

My first encounter with a Seton came at a very young age. My mother’s extensive collection of novels included several by Anya. The daughter of two writers – Ernest and Grace – Anya came rather late to writing. She resisted following the profession of her accomplished parents seeing that the continual creative struggle is not one to be taken lightly. Or by the weak in spirit.

As it turns out, Anya had considerable talent and once she decided to take up the writing trade she achieved enough success to try to her hand at a novel. And when that proved successful, several more. With each succeeding book she expanded her audience, becoming popular enough that a few of her books were acquired for motion pictures.

Between 1941 and 1975 Anya published 13 books and although it is difficult to quantify, likely sold more books than her famous parents combined.

The Importance of Getting Away from Ernest

This book is not about Ernest Thompson Seton, but by sheer fo

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Anya Seton

American author of historical fiction (1904-1990)

Anya Seton
Seton at her wedding to her first husband Hamilton Cottier, from a 1923 publication
Born	Ann Seton (1904-01-23)January 23, 1904 Manhattan, New York
Died	November 8, 1990(1990-11-08) (aged 86) Old Greenwich, Connecticut
Resting place	Putnam Cemetery
Occupation	Author
Language	English
Nationality	American
Genre	Historical fiction
Notable works
Spouse	Hamilton Cottier (m. 1923; div. 1930) Hamilton M. Chase (m. 1930; div. 1968)
Children	3
Parents	Ernest Thompson Seton (father) Grace Gallatin Seton Thompson (mother)

Anya Seton (January 23, 1904 – November 8, 1990), born Ann Seton, was an American author of historical fiction, or as she preferred they be called, "biographical novels".^[1]^[2]

Early life and education