Sheila Ballantyne
American novelist and short story writer
Sheila Caroline Ballantyne (née Weibert; July 26, 1937 – May 2, 2007) was an American novelist and short story writer. Her work primarily focused on the shifting roles of women during first-wave feminism.
Biography
Ballantyne was born Sheila Caroline Weibert in Seattle, Washington. Ballantyne's mother died of cancer when Ballantyne was ten years old, and she and her sister were raised by her widowed father in Seattle. After graduating high school, she enrolled at Mills College in San Francisco, studying writing.
After college, Ballantyne worked in the medical records department of Mount Zion Hospital in San Francisco. There, she met Philip Spielman, a psychoanalyst whom she subsequently married. The couple had one son, Stefan, and a daughter, Anya. She published her debut novel, Norma Jean and the Termite Queen, in 1975, using her mother's maiden name of Ballantyne as a pen name.
In 1982, Ballantyne published the semi-autobiographical Imaginary Crimes, which documents the upbringing of two young girls in 1960s Portland, Oregon.
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