Agnes Newton Keith

Novelist, Author

1901 – 1982

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Who was Agnes Newton Keith?

Agnes Newton Keith was an American author best known for her three autobiographical accounts of life in North Borneo before, during, and after the Second World War. The second of these, Three Came Home, tells of her time in Japanese POW and civilian internee camps in North Borneo and Sarawak, and was made into a film of the same name in 1950. She published seven books in all.

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Born
Jul 4, 1901
Oak Park
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  • United States of America
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Education
  • University of California, Berkeley
Died
Mar 30, 1982
Oak Bay

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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