![]() ![]() Wilna Ensley died in 1971 but not before she saw the dawn of public recognition for Walton and her works. In 1946 after the death of her grandmother, Walton and her mother moved to Tucson, Arizona. Walton and her mother traveled often to New York City, Chicago and San Francisco for opera, especially for Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen opera was a passion her entire life. Frank Baum, James Stephens, Lord Dunsany and Algernon Blackwood, which she would later cite as influences on her fiction. As a child, Walton enjoyed the works of L. Growing up and living with her mother and her grandmother and witnessing her parents’ marital difficulties roused a natural feminism in Walton which appears throughout her writings. Her parents separated and divorced in 1924. Walton suffered chronic respiratory illnesses as a child, and was privately or self-taught at home. Life īorn in Indianapolis, Indiana to Marion Edmund Ensley and Wilna Eunice Ensley née Coyner, Walton came from a lively, educated, Quaker family. ![]() She remains popular in North America and Europe because of her “ability to humanize historical and mythological subjects with eloquence, humor and compassion”. Evangeline Walton (24 November 1907 – 11 March 1996) was the pen name of Evangeline Wilna Ensley, an American writer of fantasy fiction. ![]()
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