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Henrietta Henkle Stephens (March 10, 1909-April 26, 1993)^[1] was an American novelist and historian who wrote under the name Henrietta Buckmaster. She is best known for her book about the Underground Railroad, Let My People Go (1941).^[2]

Buckmaster was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of Rae D. Henkle, journalist and later foreign editor of the New York Herald Tribune, and Pearl Wintermute Henkle. She began writing at an early age, publishing a story in Child Life at 12. She attended the Friends Seminary and the Brearley School.

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Bibliography[edit]

Tomorrow Is Another Day, R. D. Henkle, 1934.
His End Was His Beginning, Henkle-Yewdale House, 1936.
Let My People Go: The Story of the Underground Railroad and the Growth of the Abolition Movement, Harper, 1941
Deep River, Harcourt, 1944.
Fire in the Heart, Harcourt, 1948.
Bread from Heaven, Random House, 1952.
And Walk in Love: A Novel Based on the Life of the Apostle Paul, Random House, 1956.
Lucy and Loki, Scribner, 1958.
Flight to Freedom: The Story of the Underground Railroad, Crowell, 1958.
All the Living: A Novel of One Year in the Life of William Shakespeare, Random House, 1962.
Walter Raleigh: Man of Two Worlds, Random House, 1964.
Paul: A Man Who Changed the World (biography), McGraw, 1965.
Freedom Bound, Macmillan, 1965.
The Seminole Wars, P. Collier, 1966.
Women Who Shaped History, P. Collier, 1966.
The Lion in the Stone (novel), Harcourt, 1968.
The Walking Trip, Harcourt, 1972.
Wait Until Evening, Harcourt, 1974.
The Fighting Congressmen: Biographies of Black and White Congressmen in the Post-Civil War Period, Scholastic Book Service, 1974.

References[edit]

^ "Henrietta Henkle Stephens." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Biography In Context. Web. 4 Mar. 2013.
^ "HENRIETTA BUCKMASTER, 74, WAS A NOVELIST AND EDITOR". The New York Times. p. 23.
^ Darlene Clark Hine (1992). "Introduction". In Henrietta Buckmaster (ed.). Let My People Go: The Story of the Underground Railroad and the Growth of the Abolition Movement. Univ of South Carolina Press. pp. ix–xix. ISBN 978-0-87249-865-5. Retrieved 4 March 2013.

External links[edit]

Gamaliel/Buckmaster at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Category:1909 births Category:1993 deaths Category:African-American non-fiction writers Category:African-American novelists Category:African-American historians Category:Writers from Ohio Category:People from Cleveland

[1] "Henrietta Henkle Stephens." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Biography In Context. Web. 4 Mar. 2013.

[NYT-2] "HENRIETTA BUCKMASTER, 74, WAS A NOVELIST AND EDITOR". The New York Times. p. 23.

[DCH-3] Darlene Clark Hine (1992). "Introduction". In Henrietta Buckmaster (ed.). Let My People Go: The Story of the Underground Railroad and the Growth of the Abolition Movement. Univ of South Carolina Press. pp. ix–xix. ISBN 978-0-87249-865-5. Retrieved 4 March 2013.

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