Clemence McLaren
, b. 1938
Clemence McLaren is an American author, teacher and researcher who has lived in an impressive range of places. Born in New Jersey November 3, 1938, the daughter of an engineer, she went on to graduate from Rutgers University in 1960. In 1960, she also married Robert McLaren, a fellow teacher. After this, she was a flight attendant for a year, then began teaching, first in Dover, NJ, then in Saudi Arabia and finally in Hawaii. In 1987 she became summer program dean for Johns Hopkins University, and a sometime Professor and researcher for University of Hawaii from 1987 to 1995. She finally moved to Hawaii with her family and became a teacher of senior secondary school English there from 1993. Here, she also achieved a doctorate in religion.
At one time, McLaren and her husband lived in Greece, where they built a cottage on a Greek island. It was here that McLaren told the first versions of her novels to her children and others. McLaren has two children, Kevin and Heather. Her other published works are a sequel to Inside the Walls of Troy, Waiting for Odysseus (2000), which is based on the Odyssey, Aphrodite’s Blessings: Love Stories from the Greek Myths (2002) and Dance for the Land (1999), published in expanded form as Dance for the Aina in 2003. The latter tells the story of a twelve year old girl’s move from California to Hawaii, and her subsequent adjustment to this new environment and experiencing of prejudice.
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Goodreads (accessed: January 29, 2020).
Bio prepared by Robin Diver, University of Birmingham, RSD253@student.bham.ac.uk
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