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American author and columnist
June Burn
(1893?1969) was an American non-fiction writer and columnist.
Background and career
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Burn was born
Inez Chandler Harris
on June 19, 1893, in
Anniston, Alabama
. Her father was a
Methodist
circuit riding minister. At age sixteen, she moved to
Oklahoma
and eventually graduated from
Oklahoma State University
. Many years later, she completed her M.A. in Soil and Nutrition under
William Albrecht
at the
University of Missouri
.
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In 1917, Harris started working as a staff writer for
McCall's
in
New York City
. Two years later she met and married Farrar Burn (1888?1974), a recent
World War I
veteran, while living outside of
Washington, D.C.
Over the next fifty years, Farrar and June travelled extensively around the United States, homesteading in the
San Juan Islands
, teaching
Eskimos
and traveling across the United States in a
covered wagon
. She wrote extensively for various periodicals and wrote several books. Burn's autobiography
Living High: An Unconventional Autobiography
(1941) documents much of her early life story, particularly her time on
Waldron Island
and other islands in Washington's San Juan Islands. The book has been republished several times. June Burn died in 1969 and her husband Farrar died in 1974. They were both buried in
Van Buren, Arkansas
. Burn's daughter-in-law,
Doris Burn
, was a notable children's book author and illustrator.
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