Christine Goutiere Weston
Christine de Marquetiere Goutiere Weston was an India-born American fiction writer.
Life
She was born in Unnao, now in Uttar Pradesh, British India, the daughter of George Henry Goutière, a British indigo planter of French descent, and Alice Luard Wintle, also born in British India. In 1923 she married American businessman Robert Weston, and moved with him to the United States, where she began a writing career.Weston's second novel, The Devil's Foot, was described by Dawn Powell as handling "an American story with the dexterity and subtlety of Henry James." Indigo, set in India, is generally considered her best work and made her reputation as a psychological novelist. The Dark Wood also received good reviews and the rights were bought by Twentieth-Century Fox. The film was cast in 1946 with Maureen O'Hara and Tyrone Power in the lead roles, and Otto Preminger directing, but was never produced.
Weston also wrote The World is a Bridge and two non-fiction books about Ceylon and Afghanistan. In total she produced 10 novels, over 30 short stories, 2 non-fiction books, and Bhimsa, the Dancing Bear, a 1946 Newbery Honor children's book.
Weston divorced her husband in 1951 but later remarried. At the time of the divorce they were living in Castine, Maine, and she wrote some of her later fiction about New England. She spent the later part of her life in Bangor, Maine.
Weston won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1940.
Works
Novels
Be Thou the Bride The Devil's Foot Indigo The Dark Wood The World Is a Bridge The Wise Children- ''The Hoopoe''
Short fiction
- ''There and Then: Stories of India''
Juvenile
Nonfiction
Ceylon: A World Background Book- ''Afghanistan: A World Background Book''
Short stories
| Title | Publication | Collected in |
| "Roshan" | The New Yorker | There and Then |
| "The Last Room" | New Mexico Quarterly Review 13.3 | - |
| "The Mangoes Are Gone" | The New Yorker | There and Then |
| "Raziya" | Tomorrow | There and Then |
| "The Mud Horse" | The New Yorker | There and Then |
| "When Bulgaria Fell" | The New Yorker | There and Then |
| "Mimosa" | The New Yorker | There and Then |
| "A Game of Halma" | The New Yorker | There and Then |
| "Be Still, She Sleeps" | The New Yorker | There and Then |
| "River Scene" | The New Yorker | There and Then |
| "The Ball" | The New Yorker | There and Then |
| "Fine Oranges" | Tomorrow | - |
| "Alexander" | The New Yorker | There and Then |
| "The Atlas Moth" | The New Yorker | There and Then |
| "The Devil Has the Moon" | The New Yorker | There and Then |
| "The Emerald Dove" | Tomorrow | There and Then |
| "Infernal Little Beast" | The New Yorker | There and Then |
| "Java Coolie" | The New Yorker | - |
| "Her Bed Is India" | The New Yorker | - |
| "Capital City, 1947" | The New Yorker | - |
| "Banog" | The New Yorker | - |
| "Let Me Stay" | The New Yorker | - |
| "After Akbar" | The New Yorker | - |
| "The Last Shall Be the First" | The New Yorker | - |
| "No Terra Firma" | The New Yorker | - |
| "Bear Hunt in Oriasa" | The New Yorker | - |
| "The Second Pasture" | Collier's | - |
| "Loud Sing Cuckoo" | Mademoiselle | - |
| "A Day in Spring" | The New Yorker | - |
| "The Forest of the Night" | The New Yorker | - |
| "A Man Has No Choice" | The New Yorker | - |
| "The Dream of Part'n Deen" | Collier's | - |
| "The Man in Gray" | Virginia Quarterly Review 29.3 | - |
| "The Stealers" | The New Yorker | - |
| "The Jhula" | The New Yorker | - |
| "On the Sindh River" | The New Yorker | - |
| "Four Annas" | Virginia Quarterly Review 31.3 | - |
| "Mr. Chandra's Five-Year Plan" | Collier's | - |
| "The Cub" | Harper's | - |
| "The Roses of Mazar" | The New Yorker | - |
| "Summer Is Another Country" | Harper's | - |
| "The First Frost" | Redbook | - |
| "The Magic Time" | McCall's | from The Hoopoe |