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Mama's Bank Account, [7] [8] [9] her best-known work, was published in 1943 and revolved around the daily struggles and aspirations of a Norwegian family living in San Francisco in the 1910s. [10] Forbes' book served as the inspiration for John Van Druten's 1944 play I Remember Mama.
- Kathryn Forbes
- 1943
Forbes, born Kathryn Anderson, was the granddaughter of Norwegian immigrants. She was a writer best known for Mama's Bank Account, a fictionalized memoir about a Norwegian family in 1920s San Francisco. The book focused on the warmhearted family and its struggles and dreams.
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- Kathryn Forbes
Forbes's book of short stories, Mama's Bank Account (1943), was dramatized by John Van Druten, produced by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstien II, and reached the Music Box Theater on...
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- Kathryn Forbes
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1968
Forbes, born Kathryn Anderson, was the granddaughter of Norwegian immigrants. She was a writer best known for Mama's Bank Account, a fictionalized memoir about a Norwegian family in 1920s San Francisco. The book focused on the warmhearted family and its struggles and dreams.
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- May 15, 1966
- March 20, 1908
Mama’s Bank Account is a novel by Kathryn Forbes, published in 1943. The story focuses on the thrift and practicality of “Mama,” the matriarch of a Norwegian family in early twentieth-century San Francisco. Katheryn Forbes was the pen name of author Kathryn McLean.
Apr 22, 2014 · Mama's bank account. by. Kathryn Forbes. Publication date. 1971. Topics. Norwegians -- United States -- Fiction, San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction. Publisher. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
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Mama's Bank Account: Author: Kathryn Forbes: Published: 1943 : Export Citation: BiBTeX EndNote RefMan
