Armine von Tempski
Template:Short description Armine von Tempski (or Tempsky) (1892, Maui, Hawaiian Islands – December 2, 1943, Fresno, California) was an American writer[1][2] and one of Hawaii's best known authors.[3][4] She was a granddaughter of Gustavus von Tempsky.[1]
Armine Von Tempski's autobiographies and novels were based on her early life among the paniolos (cowboys) on the Haleakala cattle ranch[5] atop the Haleakalā shield volcano. The Haleakala Ranch, which Jack London first visited in 1907,[6] was his favourite[7] of the Hawaiian ranches he enjoyed on several extended visits with his wife Charmian. The young Armine, then sixteen years old,[8] asked London to read some of her stories and give his opinion. He said that they were "clumsy, incoherent tripe" but added that "every so often there's a streak of fire on your pages,"[8] which encouraged her.
Her first published writing, in the early 1920s,[3] was about efforts to restore the island of Kahoolawe after years of drought and overgrazing.
Personal life
She married California real estate agent[1] Alfred Lathrop Ball on December 25, 1932, in Ventura County, California.[9] They were friends of poet Don Blanding,[10] who illustrated von Tempski's book, Ripe Breadfruit (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1935).
Note: While Von Tempski's year of birth is sometimes given[11] or presumed[12] as 1899, most source texts place it in 1892.
Bibliography
The Ox Bow Press in Woodbridge, Connecticut, publishes reprint editions of von Tempski's books.[13]
Autobiographies
- 1940. Born in Paradise.[14] (Bestseller.[12]) Paperback: Template:ISBN.
- 1946. Aloha. (Sequel) Paperback: Template:ISBN. Hardcover: Template:ISBN.
Fiction
- 1927. Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". Hula. Hardcover: Template:ISBN (the 1927 silent film Hula was based on it)
- 1928. Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". Hardcover: Template:ISBN.
- 1929. Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- 1933. Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". (Fictional account of the pineapple industry's beginnings on Maui) Hardcover: Template:ISBN.
- 1935. Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- 1940. Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". (For younger readers.)
- 1941. Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- 1942. Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". Hardcover: Template:ISBN.
- 1946. Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
References
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- ↑ Clarice Stasz. Jack London's Women. University of Massachusetts Amherst Press, 2001. Template:ISBN. "They [Jack London and his wife] most preferred visits to ranches, where they could enjoy the isolation and hospitality of a family, as well as daily horseback riding. Their favorite was Haleakala Ranch, managed by Louis von Tempsky. His teenage daughter Armine, a budding writer, was surprised to find Jack a "breezy, boyish-looking man with ... a mop of rather untidy hair. Intelligence, vigor, and a gusto for life emanated from him." For ten days she joined the couple on horseback. Jack rode "like a sailor," while Charmian was "such a finished performer that I lent her Bedouin, who had never carried another woman on his back." Jack read one of Armine's manuscripts and dubbed it "tripe," but added that she had "a streak of fire" that promised success once she understood that writing was the hardest work in the world." (Chapter 7, p. 123.)
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External links
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- Template:Trim/ Listed as Armene von Tempski in the credits (original story) of the 1927 film Hula at IMDbTemplate:EditAtWikidataScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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- 1892 births
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- American people of German descent
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