March 8, 2013 by frances

Halide Edib Adivar

Halide Edib was a writer, nationalist, wife, mother, feminist although she rejected the title, animal lover, scholar,  fluent in several languages she wrote some of her books  in both Turkish and English.   “The Dervish”, my second novel, is  inspired by  the life of this complex woman,  who born into a  well to do  Ottoman family […]