Drude Krog Janson Author

Drude Krog Janson (1846-1934) emigrated to Minneapolis in 1882 with her six children to be with her husband, Kristofer Janson, a Unitarian minister and prolific author. Active in the women's suffrage movement, she wrote numerous articles for the Norwegian-American press. Returning to Europe in 1893, she published three more novels and divorced her husband. She died in Copenhagen. Gerald Thorson (1921-2001) was a professor of English at St. Olaf College and a pioneer in the study of Scandinavian-American literature. Orm Overland is a professor of English at the University of Bergen, Norway.