Brenda Ueland was a journalist, editor, freelance writer, and teacher of writing.
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19 Facts About Brenda Ueland
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Brenda Ueland is best known for her book If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit.
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Brenda Ueland attended Wells and Barnard colleges and received her baccalaureate from Barnard in 1913.
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Brenda Ueland lived in and around New York City for much of her adult life before returning to Minnesota in 1930.
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Brenda Ueland's mother was a suffragette and served as the first president of the Minnesota League of Women Voters.
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Brenda Ueland would spend her life as a staunch feminist and is said to have lived by two rules: To tell the truth, and to not do anything she didn't want to.
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Brenda Ueland freelanced for many publications including the Saturday Evening Post, Ladies Home Journal, Golfer and Sportsman, and varied newspapers.
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Brenda Ueland was a staff writer for Liberty and the Minneapolis Times, among other publications.
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Brenda Ueland worked for two years as an editor for Crowell Publishing in New York City.
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Brenda wrote scripts for radio shows including a program entitled Tell Me More, which featured Ueland responding to listener's personal problems, and Stories for Girl Heroes, a children's program about notable women.
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Brenda Ueland taught many local writing classes starting in 1934.
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Brenda Ueland's second book was an autobiography entitled Me: A Memoir, published in 1939.
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Brenda Ueland tells of her affair with Raoul Hendricson, an anarchist who eventually left her for Isadora Duncan.
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Brenda Ueland was concerned with animal welfare and regularly spoke out against vivisection.
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Brenda Ueland worked with Pet Haven, Inc, a no-kill animal shelter based in Minnesota that was established in 1952.
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Brenda Ueland regularly walked up to 9 miles a day, and liked to spend time improving her handstands.
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Brenda Ueland enjoyed swimming and set an international swimming record for people over 80 years old.
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Brenda Ueland went on to marry two more times, first to Manus McFadden, the editor of the Minneapolis Times, then to Sverre Hanssen, a Norwegian artist.
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Brenda Ueland is the maternal grandmother of Eric Utne, founder of The Utne Reader.
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