A Bird in the House
A Canadian novelist, who was born in Manitoba in 1926, MARGARET LAURENCEwent with her engineer husband first to Somaliland and then to Ghana. While he was employed in constructing public works, she studied the native Africans, translating their folk tales and writing about them in her short stories and novels. Two of her books, THE TOMORROW-TAMER and NEW WIND IN A DRY LAND, were published by Alfred Knopf last spring.