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Name
  
Nancy Ross

Role
  
Novelist

Education
  
University of Oregon


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Died
  
January 18, 1986, Vero Beach, Florida, United States

Nominations
  
National Book Award for Fiction

Books
  
Buddhism - a way of life and th, Westward the Women, Farthest Reach: Oregon, Joan of Arc, Three Ways of Asian Wis

Nancy Wilson Ross (November 22, 1901 – January 18, 1986) was an American novelist. A native of Olympia, Washington who graduated from the University of Oregon in 1924, she became an expert in Eastern religions and wrote fifteen novels. Her 1957 novel The Return of Lady Brace was nominated for the National Book Award for Fiction.

Nancy Wilson Ross The World of Zen An EastWest Anthology by Nancy Wilson Ross

Books

  • Friday to Monday (1932)
  • Take the Lightning (1940)
  • The Farthest Reach (1941)
  • Westward the Women (1944)
  • The Left Hand Is the Dreamer (1947)
  • I, My Ancestor (1950)
  • Joan of Arc (1952)
  • Time's Corner (1952)
  • The Return of Lady Brace (1957)
  • Thor's Visit to the Land of Giants (1959)
  • Heroines of the Early West (1960)
  • The World of Zen: an East-West Anthology (1960)
  • Three Ways of Asian Wisdom (1966)
  • Buddhism, a Way of Life and Thought (1980)

    • References

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