Agnes Newton Keith | |
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Born | Agnes Jones Goodwillie Newton July 4, 1901 Oak Park, Illinois, U.S. |
Died | March 30, 1982 Oak Bay, British Columbia, Canada | (aged 80)
Notable works | Three Came Home (1947) |
Spouse | |
Children | 2 |
Agnes Newton Keith (born Agnes Jones Goodwillie Newton; July 4, 1901 – March 30, 1982) was an American writer best known for her three autobiographical accounts of life in North Borneo (now Sabah) before, during, and after World War II. The second of these, Three Came Home, tells of her time in Japanese prisoner-of-war camp and civilian internee camp in North Borneo and Sarawak, and was made into a film of the same name in 1950. She published seven books in all.