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Zenna Henderson

Born

in Tuscon, Arizona, The United States

November 01, 1917

Died

May 11, 1983

Genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy

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Zenna Chlarson Henderson was born on November 1, 1917 in the Tucson, Arizona area. She graduated from Arizona State in 1940 with a Bachelors degree in education and worked as a teacher in Arizona throughout her life. She died on May 11, 1983, at the age of 65, in Tucson.

Henderson is known almost entirely for short stories about "The People." The People are a race of sensitive, human-looking aliens with psychic abilities who are separated after crash-landing on Earth but come to find each other over a period of many years.

Publishing her "People" stories in the leading science fiction magazines of the 50's, 60's and 70's, Henderson became a pioneer in many areas of science fiction literature. She was one of the first female science fiction ...more

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Zenna Henderson’s books

Average rating: 4.22 · 6,792 ratings · 688 reviews · 130 distinct works • Similar authors

	Pilgrimage: The Book of the People 4.31 avg rating — 1,456 ratings — published 1961 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The People: No Different Flesh 4.36 avg rating — 900 ratings — published 1967 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ingathering: The Complete People Stories by Zenna Henderson, Mark Olson, Priscilla Olson 4.48 avg rating — 828 ratings — published 1995 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Anything Box 4.32 avg rating — 808 ratings — published 1956 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Holding Wonder 4.32 avg rating — 713 ratings — published 1971 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The People Collection by Zenna Henderson, Anne McCaffrey (introduction), Mark Harrison (Illustrator) 4.30 avg rating — 69 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Believing: The Other Stories of Zenna Henderson 4.53 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Zenna Henderson Collection 4.59 avg rating — 22 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Something Bright 4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Things 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Zenna Henderson

The People (3 books)
by

Zenna Henderson,

Mark Olson,

Priscilla Olson,

Elizabeth Finney (Illustrator)

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Quotes by Zenna Henderson (?)

“If God wanted humans to play chess, he would have made us black or white.”
― Zenna Henderson

tags: chess, games, racism

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“In any age when people pervert goodness, love, and obedience and set up a god small enough to fit their shrunken souls...Anything is evil,...It lies on the other side of the line you draw around what you will accept as good. Some people's lines are awfully narrow.”
― Zenna Henderson, The People: No Different Flesh

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“The words are the words of English, but the sense is the sense of confusion.”
― Zenna Henderson, Pilgrimage: The Book of the People

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Polls

July 2020 BOTM - New Wave (1960-79) which book would you like to read & discuss?

Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven

11 votes, 37.9%

The Ship Who Sang by Anne McCaffrey

8 votes, 27.6%

Pilgrimage: The Book of the People by Zenna Henderson

5 votes, 17.2%

They Walked Like Men by Clifford D. Simak

4 votes, 13.8%

Treason by Orson Scott Card

1 vote, 3.4%

29 total votes

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