Martha Ostenso was born 17 September 1900 in Norway. She came with her family to the United States in 1902, then moved to Brandon, Manitoba in 1915, and, two years later, to Winnipeg. Ostenso taught school briefly and worked as a reporter for the Manitoba Free Press before attending the University of Manitoba. There she met Douglas Durkin, a novelist and English professor. She followed Durkin to New York in 1921 where she was employed as a social worker. The couple moved to Gull Lake, Minnesota in 1931, married in 1945, and retired to Seattle in 1963. It is believed that Durkin collaborated on most, if not all, of Ostenso's books. She died 24 November 1963 in Seattle.

Books by Martha Ostenso

	1924 A Far Land (poetry)
	1925 Wild Geese (novel)
	1926 The Dark Dawn (novel)
	1927 The Mad Carews (novel)
	1929 The Young May Moon (novel)
	1930 The Waters Under the Earth (novel)
	1932 Prologue to Love (novel)
	1933 There's Always Another Year (novel)
	1934 The White Reef (novel)
	1937 The Stone Field (novel)
	1938 The Mandrake Root (novel)
	1942 Love Passed This Way (novel)
	1948 Milk Route (novel)
	1949 The Sunset Tree (novel)
	1958 A Man Had Tall Sons (novel)
	1943 O River, Remember! (novel)
	1943 And They Shall Walk (biography, with Sister Elizabeth Kenny)
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Added 21 March 2008.
Updated 07 January 2012.