Octavia Jordan Perry
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Octavia Jordan Perry (1895–1991) was an American writer.
Biography[]
She was born 21 April 1895 in Orange County, North Carolina, where her father was a country doctor. While a young child, she moved with her family to Durham, North Carolina. In 1916 she graduated from Woman's College (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro), and three years later married Charles W. Perry.
In 1963, Perry published My Head’s High for Proudness, a folk tale set in the North Carolina mountains and inspired by summers spent in Sparta, North Carolina. She published The Indian Bracelet, a children's story, in 1982. Other works by Perry include The Tuggles, Flow’rland Lays, These Jordans Were Here, and a centennial history of the First Presbyterian Church of High Point, North Carolina.
References[]
Sources[]
- Finding Aid for the Octavia Jordan Perry Manuscript, 1982 The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
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