Elaine Wentworth
Author | Oneonta, NY
Moving to Ketchikan, Alaska (still a territory) with her mother in 1944, Elaine (Magnuson) Wentworth, age 20, was employed by the Army Signal Corps as a teletype & radio-phone operator for the war’s duration. Forever fascinated by visits to the Tsimshian Indian Village of Metlakatla on Annette Island, she years later wrote & illustrated their dr.... more
Moving to Ketchikan, Alaska (still a territory) with her mother in 1944, Elaine (Magnuson) Wentworth, age 20, was employed by the Army Signal Corps as a teletype & radio-phone operator for the war’s duration. Forever fascinated by visits to the Tsimshian Indian Village of Metlakatla on Annette Island, she years later wrote & illustrated their dramatic story, first published in 1968.
