{"title":"Margaret McCord","description":"\u003cp\u003eMARGARET McCORD was the daughter of James McCord, the physician who founded McCord Hospital in Durban, South Africa, where she was born. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Calling of Katie Makanya: A Memoir of South Africa\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMcCord’s book won the Johannesburg \u003cem\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e Alan Paton Prize for Nonfiction in 1996 and the CNA Literary Award for non-fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrowing up, McCord knew Katie Makanya, the Zulu translator and interpreter who worked at her father’s hospital. She later recorded Makanya’s life story from a series of taped interviews, and that account became the basis of her book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMcCord was born on November 7, 1916, in Durban, South Africa, and died on March 29, 2004, in Carlisle, Massachusetts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMargaret McCord’s books are published by Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrowse more: \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/books-new-releases\"\u003eNew Releases\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/award-winning-books\"\u003eAward-Winning Books\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-calling-of-katie-makanya","title":"The Calling of Katie Makanya: A Memoir of South Africa","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eThe winner of South Africa's prestigious Sunday Times\/Alan Paton prize, this moving, illuminating memoir chronicles the life of an extraordinary woman in South Africa who was born in 1873 in colonial South Africa and lived through the early years of apartheid to her death in 1955. The story of Katie Makanya opens a window to a side of South African life seldom recorded, examining South Africa's patriarchal culture, customs, community traditions, poverty and hardships. Spanning two centuries and set in South Africa's major cities and towns, this memoir encompasses epoch-making events from the Boer War to the World Wars to the transition from colonialism to apartheid.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!-- amazon-buylink --\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003csmall\u003eWe earn a commission for purchases made through the following links.\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0471246913\/ref=nosim?tag=tpcecomm-20\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow\"\u003eshop for this title at Amazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c!-- \/amazon-buylink --\u003e\u003c!-- bookshop-buylink --\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/book\/9780471246916\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eshop for this title at Bookshop.org\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c!-- \/bookshop-buylink --\u003e","brand":"Margaret McCord","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43185561993432,"sku":"9780471246916","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43185562026200,"sku":"9780471178903","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0563\/7786\/8475\/files\/9780471673583_FC_mockup_v2_1740150563_82c3875c-7ea6-4852-ab8f-2227650b65d5.jpg?v=1791994061"}],"url":"https:\/\/turnerpublishing.com\/collections\/author-margaret-mccord.oembed","provider":"Turner Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}