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Jetta Carleton
American novelist
Jetta Carleton (October 18, 1913 – December 28, 1999) was an American novelist.
Life and career
Carleton was born on a farm in Nevada, Missouri, the daughter of P.
A. Carleton, the local superintendent of schools.
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She had two sisters, Truma and Yana; both were schoolteachers, and over twenty years older than she. The house in which they lived lacked indoor plumbing when she was born. Carleton attended Cottey College in Nevada,[1] from which she graduated in 1933.[2] She went on to study English and take a master's degree at the University of Missouri.[3] from which she graduated in 1939.
While there, she danced and acted in student productions, and in 1936 she was named the school's Poet of the Year.[1]
Upon graduation from the university, Carleton moved to Joplin, where she taught at Joplin Junior College.
After a short time there she moved again, to Kansas City, where she took a job at WHB writing