The Calling of Katie Makanya: A Memoir of South Africa
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Book details
- Author
- Margaret McCord
- Imprint
- Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 272
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Biography & Autobiography › Historical
Biography & Autobiography › Women - Topics
- South African history · apartheid · colonialism · Boer War · women's history · 20th century Africa · African biography
- ISBN-13
- 9780471246916 (Paperback)9780471178903 (Hardcover)
About the author
MARGARET 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 The Calling of Katie Makanya: A Memoir of South Africa.
McCord’s book won the Johannesburg Sunday Times Alan Paton Prize for Nonfiction in 1996 and the CNA Literary Award for non-fiction.
Growing 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.
McCord was born on November 7, 1916, in Durban, South Africa, and died on March 29, 2004, in Carlisle, Massachusetts.