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=                             Teo_Savory                             =
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                            Introduction
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Teo Savory  (December 27, 1907 - November 14, 1989) was an American
novelist, poet, translator, and publisher.


                             Early life
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Sources indicate that Teo Savory was born Elizabeth Bullis Dunbar in
1907, the daughter of Lambert Dunbar (1879-1965) and Elsie Lyons
(1883-1949).
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* Lambert Dunbar was a flour merchant from Portland, Oregon, who
emigrated to Hong Kong early in the 20th century to manage a family
business there. Savory's place of birth is disputed: according to her
own later account, she was born in Hong Kong, whereas other sources
give her birthplace as Portland, Oregon, and indicate that the Dunbar
family did not move from the U.S. to Hong Kong until 1915.
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*  Passport application states that Lambert Duncan had been living in
Hong Kong since 1915.
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Her first marriage (to Michael Gurney Hoare in Hong Kong in 1929)
ended in divorce. According to later newspaper interviews, she
attended the Royal College of Music in London and was involved in
musical comedy theater while living in England.

After returning to the U.S., she married expatriate British playwright
Gerald Savory in 1938.
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* In the 1940 U.S. Census, she was listed as TeoSavory. Although her
marriage to Savory also ended in divorce, she retained this
professional name for her literary career. In the 1940s and 1950s she
was an executive secretary and publicist for New York's American
National Theatre and Academy and the Woodstock Playhouse, and
established an agency that handled television scripts.


                   Writing and publishing career
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Savory published her first stories, "Eat Dusty Bread" and "Before
This, In Dreams" in 1947-1948.
In 1956, she married American writer Alan Brilliant (1936-2022), with
whom she founded Unicorn Press, a small publishing house, in 1966.

Her debut novel, 'The Landscape of Dreams' (1960), a
semi-autobiographical story of a girl raised in China and the United
States, was described in 'Kirkus Reviews' as "a sensitive first
novel." Her 1961 book 'The Single Secret', a narrative of a female
mental patient and her physician, was praised in 'The New York Times'
as "a remarkable novel" and the work of "an exceptionally skilled and
perceptive novelist." 'Stonecrop', her 1977 novel describing life in a
small town in Massachusetts, won a Massachusetts Council on the Arts
& Humanities Award.

Savory also published many English translations of French and German
writers and poets, including Jacques Prévert, Guillevic, and Günter
Eich.

She died of lung cancer in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1989.


Novels
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*'The Landscape of Dreams' (1960)
*'The Single Secret' (1961)
*'A Penny for his Pocket' (1963) (UK title: 'A Penny for the Guy')
*'To a High Place' (1972)
*'Stonecrop: The Country I Remember' (1977)
*'To Raise a Rainbow' (1980)


Short fiction
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* 'A Clutch of Fables' (1977)
* 'A Childhood' (1978)
* 'West to East: Tales of the Twenties & Thirties' (1989)


Poetry
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*'Traveler's Palm' (1967)
*'Snow Vole' (1968)
*'Transitions' (1973)
*'Dragons of Mist and Torrent' (1974)


                           External links
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* [https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28teo%20savory%29
Works by Teo Savory] at Internet Archive
* [http://www.unicorn-press.org/ Unicorn Press], Savory's publishing
house


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