Bio:Henrietta Buckmaster

Henrietta Buckmaster was born Henrietta Henkle in 1909 in Cleveland, Ohio. She was married briefly to Peter John Stephens, and wrote at one time as Henrietta Henkle Stephens. After they separated, she apparently reverted to the legal name of Henrietta Henkle, but wrote under the name Henrietta Buckmaster.

During her prolific career as a novelist, book reviewer, and journalist, she wrote extensively for the Christian Science Monitor, the New York Sun, Harper's Bazaar, and the Saturday Review of Literature. A prolific writer of children's stories as well as historical novels, Miss Buckmaster was known also for her wide humanitarian interests, which included participation in the civil-rights movement and other causes, such as those of American Indians and prisoners' rights. A dedicated civil rights advocate, Buckmaster gained international recognition for her Afrocentric approach to slavery and the Abolitionist Movement with her publication of Let My People Go (1941), an account of the Underground Railroad, the Abolition Movement, and the African American struggle to be free.

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NovelGuide biography of Henrietta Buckmaster.

New York Times obituary.

Dictionary of Pseudonyms: 13,000 Assumed Names and Their Origins, Adrian Room, 5th ed., 2010.

Let My People Go, 1992 edition published by Univ. of South Carolina Press.

Also, see Current Biography, v. 1946, H.W. Wilson Co.