13 Facts About Nancy Dupree

Nancy Hatch Dupree was an American historian whose work primarily focused on the history of modern Afghanistan.

Nancy Dupree was the director of the Afghanistan Center at Kabul University and author of five books that she compiled while studying the history of Afghanistan from 1962 until the late 1970s, writing about tourism and history of Bamyan, Kabul, Kandahar, Herat, Mazar-i-Sharif and so on.

Nancy Dupree was fondly called the "grandmother of Afghanistan", having spent much of her life there or with Afghans abroad.

Nancy Dupree was born as Nancy Hatch in Cooperstown, New York.

Nancy Dupree spent most of her childhood in India, then under the British Raj.

Nancy Dupree's parents were working in Kerala, where her father was an adviser to the Maharaja of Travancore.

Nancy Dupree then went to Columbia University to study Chinese.

Nancy Dupree did her master's in Chinese Art at Columbia University, but her life was linked to southern Asia in an inexorable manner.

Several years later, she met Louis Nancy Dupree, who was a renowned archaeologist and scholar of Afghan culture and history.

Nancy Dupree said that in the looting that began after the Soviet invasion, many priceless books were sold to be used for fuel.

In 2005, Nancy Dupree moved back to Kabul and worked with the Afghan government to find a place to house ACBAR's collection.

Nancy Dupree divided her time between Afghanistan and her other home in North Carolina.

Nancy Dupree died after battling an unspecified illness in Kabul, Afghanistan, at the age of 89.