Christine de Marquetiere Goutiere Weston (31 August 1903 – 4 May 1989) was an India-born American fiction writer.
Life
She was born in
Unnao, now in
Uttar Pradesh, British India, the daughter of George Henry Goutière, a British
indigo planter of French descent, and Alice Luard Wintle, also born in British India. In 1923 she married American
businessman Robert Weston, and moved with him to the United States, where she began a writing career.
Weston's second novel, ''The Devil's Foot'' (1942), was described by
Dawn Powell as handling "an American story with the dexterity and subtlety of
Henry James." ''Indigo'' (1943), set in India, is generally considered her best work and made her reputation as a
psychological novelist. ''The Dark Wood'' (1946) also received good reviews and the rights were bought by
Twentieth-Century Fox. The film was cast in 1946 with
Maureen O'Hara
Maureen O'Hara (; 17 August 1920 – 24 October 2015) was a native Irish and naturalized American actress and singer, who became successful in Cinema of the United States, Hollywood from the 1940s through to the 1960s. She was a natural ...
and
Tyrone Power in the lead roles, and
Otto Preminger directing, but was never produced.
Weston also wrote ''The World is a Bridge'' (1950) and two
non-fiction books about
Ceylon
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
and
Afghanistan. In total she produced 10 novels, over 30 short stories (mostly for
New York City magazines), 2 non-fiction books, and
Bhimsa, the Dancing Bear (1945), a 1946 Newbery Honor children's book.
Weston divorced her husband in 1951 but later remarried. At the time of the divorce they were living in Castine, Maine, and she wrote some of her later fiction about New England. She spent the later part of her life in Bangor, Maine.
Weston won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1940.
References
*Obituary, ''New York Times'', May 6, 1989
*"Woman Novelist Gets Divorce", ''New York Times'', Oct. 24, 1951
*Review of "Indigo", ''New York Times'', Oct. 24, 1943
External links
Christine Westonat Library of Congress Authorities — with 13 catalog records
{{DEFAULTSORT:Weston, Christine Goutiere
1903 births
1989 deaths
Writers from Bangor, Maine
American women novelists
Newbery Honor winners
20th-century British novelists
20th-century American women writers
20th-century American novelists
People from Unnao
People from Castine, Maine
Novelists from Maine