Harriet Huntington Doerr was an American author whose debut novel was published at the age of 74. A granddaughter of California railroad magnate and noted collector of art and rare books, Henry Edwards Huntington, Harriet Green Huntington grew up in a Pasadena, California, family that encouraged intellectual endeavors. She attended high school at Westridge School, in Pasadena. She then enrolled in Smith College in 1927, but transferred to Stanford University the following year. In 1930, after her junior year, she left school and married Albert Doerr, Jr., a Stanford '30 graduate whom she had... known in Pasadena. The Doerrs spent the next 25 years in Pasadena, where they raised a son, Michael , and a daughter, Martha. Albert Doerr's family owned a copper mine in the Mexican state of Aguascalientes, and in the late 1950s, the Doerrs moved to Mexico where Albert was engaged in restoring the mine. Harriet had accompanied Albert to Mexico when he had business there many times, beginning in 1935, but this time, they remained until 1972, when Albert died ten years after being diagnosed with leukemia.
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