URI(s)
Variants
- Oludhe-Macgoye, Marjorie
- King, Marjorie, 1928-2015
Identifies LC/NAF RWO
Identifies RWO
Birth Date
- 1928
Death Date
- 2015-12-01
Has Affiliation
- Organization: SJ Moore
Birth Place
- England
Associated Language
- English
Field of Activity
(naf) Kenyan literature (English)
(naf) Book industries and trade
Occupation
Bookstore manager
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Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Sources
- found: The story of Kenya, 1986:t.p. (Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye) verso t.p. (copyr., Marjorie Macgoye) spine (Oludhe-Macgoye)
- found: Chira, 1997:p. 4 of cover (Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye; b. 1928, Southampton, Eng.; lives in Kenya)
- found: Wikipedia, 2/27/2015(she is an English/Kenyan novelist, essayist and poet) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie_Oludhe_Macgoye
- found: Telegraph WWW site, viewed Dec. 7, 2015(Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye; celebrated as the "mother of Kenyan literature", a popular author of novels, short stories, poems, essays and books for children; born Marjorie King in 1928 in Southampton (her exact date of birth is unknown); went out to Kenya at the height of the Mau Mau insurgency to work as a lay missionary in the Church Missionary Society bookshop in Nairobi; in 1960 she married DGW Oludhe Macgoye, with whom she moved to Kisumu; for many years Marjorie Macgoye worked as manager of SJ Moore, one of Nairobi's major bookshops, where she organised author readings by prominent African writers; died December 1 2015, probably aged 87)
LC Classification
- PR9381.9.M19
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Change Notes
- 1987-04-22: new
- 2015-12-07: revised
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