The Invasion - Lewis, Janet
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The Invasion is the first work of Janet Lewis (The Wife of Martin Guerre and The Trial of Soren Quist) who grew up in the Lake country of the Old Northwest and is based on family stories told to her as a child. It displays well-researched historical accuracy and an innate understanding of and feeling for Native American culture enhanced by the author's fluency in the Ojibwa language.

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The Invasion is the first work of Janet Lewis (The Wife of Martin Guerre and The Trial of Soren Quist) who grew up in the Lake country of the Old Northwest and is based on family stories told to her as a child. It displays well-researched historical accuracy and an innate understanding of and feeling for Native American culture enhanced by the author's fluency in the Ojibwa language.
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Janet Lewis was born in Chicago in 1899. In 1922, she published her first volume of poetry, The Indians in the Woods. Lewis' first novel was The Invasion: A Narrative of Events Concerning the Johnston Family of St. Mary's (1932). She married author Yvor Winters in 1926, with whom she founded Gyroscope (1929-1931), an influential literary journal that served as center for a group led by Winters. She continued to write poetry throughout her life. She is best known for her historical fiction and is also the author of a volume of short fiction. She taught creative writing and literature courses at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley. Janet Lewis died in 1998, at the age of 99.