Minnie Ward Patterson

Minnie Ward Patterson (née Minnie Ward) mawakiya ce kuma marubuciya, an haife ta ne a garin Michigan. Ayyukanta mafi shahara shine Pebbles daga Old Pathways .

 Rayuwa 
An haifi Minnie Ward a cikin kimanin 1844 a Niles, Michigan .  Kafin ta kai ga balaga, iyayenta biyu sun mutu, kuma an bar ta ga kulawar baƙi. Tun tana ƙarama, ta koyar da kiɗa da zane, tana cika kowane lokaci tare da rubutu. Ta kAM karatu tare da girmamawa daga Kwalejin Hillsdale tana da shekaru ashirin, sannan daga baya ta sami digiri na AM.

Ba da daɗewa ba bayan ta bar makaranta, ta buɗe ɗakin karatu a Birnin Chicago, kuma tana ba da gudummawa akai-akai ga "Sunday Times" yawanci akan sa hannun "Zinober Green". Yayinda take kan yawon shakatawa tare da Upper Mississippi, a lokacin rani na 1867, ta zama matar John C. Patterson, tsohon abokin aji a Hillsdale, kuma mai digiri na makarantar lauya a Albany, wanda ya zama fitaccen memba na mashaya na Michigan sannan aka zabe shi sau biyu a Majalisar Dattijai ta wannan Jiha. Ma'auratan sun zauna a Marshall, Michigan. Tana da wasu sadarwa tare da William Cullen Bryant wanda ya shawarce ta da yin waka a matsayin aikinta na farko.

 Ayyuka 
Waƙoƙin Patterson sun bayyana a cikin Boston Transcript, Youth's Companion, Wide Awake, Peterson's Magazine, Free Press, Detroit Tribune, Detroit Times, Journal of Chicago, da sauran jaridu daban-daban.

A cikin 1875 ta buga wani littafi mai taken Pebbles from Old Pathways, tarin shafi 200 na waƙoƙinta.  Ba da daɗewa ba bayan bayyanar wannan Pebbles ta zama mai matukar sha'awar yarukan Norse da adabi, kuma aikinta na gaba mai mahimmanci shine fassarar kundin uku na littafin Sweden The Surgeon's Stories, mai taken Times of Frederick I, Times of Linnæus, da Times of Alchemy . Ta kuma fassara tatsuniyoyi da yawa daga Norwegian, wanda ya bayyana a cikin jaridu daban-daban.

Patterson daga ƙarshe ta koma Colorado Springs, inda ɗanta George Leo Patterson ya kasance fasto na Ikilisiyar Ikilisiya. Lokacin da ya koma New York a 1912, ta "yi wa'azi mai karfi cewa cocin ya zabe ta a matsayin fasto". A watan Fabrairun 1916, an ruwaito cewa ta mutu a asibiti a New York.

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