About Anauta Blackmore
Lived 1890 – 1965 (aged 74–75). Anauta Blackmore was a Canadian writer.
Anauta Blackmore (–1965), also known as Lizzie Ford Blackmore, was an Arctic author, memoirist and lecturer. She is best known for her 1940 autobiography, Land of the Good Shadows, which may be the first book-length autobiography of an Inuk. Blackmore claimed to have Inuit ancestry, although it's unclear if this was true.
Early life
She was born Sarah Elizabeth Ford on Baffin Island in about 1890. Her father was George (or Yorgke) Ford, who worked for the Hudson's Bay Company as an interpreter.
Blackmore died of a heart attack on 13 January 1965 in Ashland, Kansas, where she had been engaged to lecture.
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Who was Anauta Blackmore?
Inuit author
When was Anauta Blackmore born?
Anauta Blackmore was born in 1890 in Baffin Island.
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Anauta Blackmore died in 1965 in Ashland.
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Anauta Blackmore was a writer.
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Anauta Blackmore was Canadian.
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