Claire Rudolf Murphy was born in Spokane, Washington, the daughter of a journalist and a librarian. She has loved writing since grade school.
She received a degree in history from Santa Clara University, then went on to earn a teaching credential from the University of California at Berkeley. In 1974, after graduating from college, she moved to Alaska and became a Jesuit Volunteer teacher at St. Mary’s in western Alaska. She met her husband there and they later moved to Fairbanks where they both worked as teachers. She earned her Master's of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. While teaching middle-school language arts, she began writing in order to understand the creative process and help her students. Following the birth of her own children, she quit teaching and begin writing professionally. In 1998, her husband retired from his position as principal, and they moved to Spokane, Washington.
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History, Juvenile literature, Fiction, Biography, Children's fiction, Juvenile fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, Alaska, fiction, Children, Gold discoveries, Gold mines and mining, African americans, biography, African americans, biography, juvenile literature, Alaska, Fathers and daughters, Frontier and pioneer life, alaska, Pioneer children, Social aspects, Social conditions, Women pioneers, 1867-1959, African American civil rights workers, African Americans, Alaska, history, Alaska, juvenile literaturePlaces
Alaska, Klondike River Valley (Yukon), United States, Yukon River Valley (Yukon and Alaska), Yukon Territory, Fairbanks (Alaska), Gold discoveries, Klondike RIver Valley, Klondike River Valley, McKinley, Mount (Alaska), Mount (Alaska) McKinley, Nome, Northwest Coast of North America, Russian Far East (Russia), Soviet Union, West (U.S.), Yukon, Yukon River Region (Yukon and Alaska)People
Klondy Nelson (b. 1897), Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968), Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968), Sacagawea, Samuel Francis Smith (1808-1895), Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906), York (ca. 1775-ca. 1815)ID Numbers
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- Claire Rodolf Murphy
- Claire Rudolph Murphy
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