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Winnifred Eaton (writer)
Canadian author and screenwriter
Winnifred Eaton | |
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Winnifred Eaton c. 1903 | |
| Born | (1875-08-21)August 21, 1875 Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Died | April 8, 1954(1954-04-08) (aged 78) Butte, Montana, USA |
| Pen name | Onoto Watanna |
| Period | 1899–1932 |
| Genre | novelist, screenwriter |
| Notable works | Tama (1910) Me, A Book of Remembrance |
| Relatives | Edith Maude Eaton, sister |
Winnifred Eaton (August 21, 1875 – April 8, 1954) was a Canadian author and screenwriter of Chinese-British ancestry.[1] Publishing prolifically under a number of names,[2] most predominantly, the pseudonym Onoto Watanna, she was one of the first North American writers of Asian descent to publish fiction in English.[3]
Biography
Eaton was the daughter of an English merchant, Edward C.
Eaton (1839 – 1915), and a Chinese performer, Achuen "Grace" Amoy (1846 – 1922).[4] The two married in Shanghai in 1863 but relocate