Anna Lee Waldo

Anna Lee Waldo is an American author of historical fiction, born on 16 February 1925. She is most noted for her novel Sacajawea, a fictional retelling of the life of the Shoshone woman who accompanied the Lewis and Clark expedition. She was born in Great Falls, Montana, grew up in Whitefish, and became interested in Native Americans as a child, collecting spear points on the shores of Whitefish Lake. She studied chemistry at Montana State University and took a master's degree in organic chemistry at the University of Maryland.