Armine von Tempski

Armine von Tempski (or Tempsky) (1892, Maui, Hawaiian Islands—December 21943, Fresno, California) was an American writercite web |url= http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/150/sesq6vontempsky |title= Armine von Tempsky |author= Michael Tsai |work= The Honolulu Advertiser |date= 2 July2006 |quote= ] cite web |url= http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=28808 |title= Armine von Tempsky Tells Further Plans |author= |work= Maui News |publisher= Newspaper Abstracts website |date= 2 May1928 |quote= ] and one of Hawaii's best known authors.cite web |url= http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Apr/13/ln/ln53pbob.html |title= An earlier rescue of barren isle |author= Bob Krauss |work= The Honolulu Advertiser (includes extensive quotes from Armine von Temspki's first published writing) |date= 13 April2005 |quote= ] cite web |url= http://www.mauinews.com/print_version.aspx?id=11681 |title= Past and present: Maui’s centennial honorees |work= Maui News |date= 21 August2005 |quote= ] She was a granddaughter of Gustavus von Tempsky.

Armine Von Tempski's autobiographies and novels were based on her early life among the Hawaiian cowboys (paniolos) on the Haleakala cattle ranchcite web |url= http://www.haleakalamaui.com/history.htm |title= Haleakala Ranch Company History |work= Haleakala Ranch website |date= 2005 |quote= ] atop the Haleakalā shield volcano. The Haleakala Ranch, which Jack London first visited in 1907,cite web |url= http://www.hartmanevision.com/voiceofhawaii/hawaiianvoice.swf |title= Hawaiian Voice |author= Amy Hartman |work= ( [http://www.hartmanevision.com/voiceofhawaii/ Introduction] ) |format= SWF movie |quote= ] was his favouriteClarice Stasz. "Jack London's Women." University of Massachusetts Press, 2001. ISBN 1-55849-301-8. “They [Jack London and his wife] most preferred visits to ranches, where they could enjoy the isolation and hospitality of a family, as well as daily horseback riding. Their favorite was Haleakala Ranch, managed by Louis von Tempsky. His teenage daughter Armine, a budding writer, was surprised to find Jack a “breezy, boyish-looking man with ... a mop of rather untidy hair. Intelligence, vigor, and a gusto for life emanated from him.” For ten days she joined the couple on horseback. Jack rode “like a sailor,” while Charmian was “such a finished performer that I lent her Bedouin, who had never carried another woman on his back.” Jack read one of Armine's manuscripts and dubbed it “tripe,” but added that she had “a streak of fire” that promised success once she understood that writing was the hardest work in the world.” (Chapter 7, p. 123.)] of the Hawaiian ranches he enjoyed on several extended visits with his wife Charmian. The young Armine, then sixteen years old,cite web |url= http://www.spiritofaloha.com/features/0307/writehawaii.html |title= They Came to Write in Hawai‘i |author= Joseph Theroux |work= Spirit of Aloha (Aloha Airlines) March/April 2007 |quote= ] asked London to read some of her stories and give his opinion. He said that they were “clumsy, incoherent tripe” but added that “every so often there’s a streak of fire on your pages,” which encouraged her. Her first published writing, in the early 1920s, was about efforts to restore the island of Kahoolawe after years of drought and overgrazing.

She married California real estate agent Alfred Lathrop Ball on 25 December1932, in Ventura County, California.Ventura County Genealogical Society: [http://www.venturacogensoc.org/Mar1929/BridTUV.htm "Brides, 1929-1940 - TUV"] [http://www.venturacogensoc.org/Mar1929/GrooB.htm "Grooms, 1929-1940 - B"] ] They were friends of poet Don Blanding,Don Blanding website: [http://www.don-blanding.com/timeline.htm Timeline] [http://www.don-blanding.com/friends.htm Friends & Acquaintances] [http://www.don-blanding.com/works.htm Career] ] who illustrated von Tempski's book, "Ripe Breadfruit" (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1935).

Note: While Von Tempski's year of birth is sometimes givencite web |url= http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8762281 |title= Armine Von Tempski (1899-1943) |work= Find A Grave ] or presumed as 1899, it is given as 1892 in most source texts.

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The Ox Bow Press in Woodbridge, Connecticut publishes reprint editions of von Tempski's books.cite web |url= http://www.oxbowpress.net/author/Hawaiiana.htm |title= "Complete Works of Armine von Tempski" |author=Ox Bow Press, Woodbridge, Connecticut |quote= ]

;Autobiographies
* 1940. "Born in Paradise."cite web |url= http://caroline.hartfordpl.lib.ct.us:90/kids/5/search/a?Von+Tempski%2C+Armine&search_code=a |title= Von Tempski, Armine, 1892-1943 |author= |work= Hartford public library catalog ] (Bestseller.cite web |url= http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40C13F83B58157A93C1A91789D95F478485F9 |title= Armine Von Tempski |work= The New York Times (registration required) |date= Published 3 December1943 |quote= Fresno, Calif. Dec. 2 (AP) — Armine von Tempski, writer and lecturer, was found dead here in her hotel room today. She was 44 years old. Deputy coroner L.R. Webb said she died of a heart attack. Best known of Miss von Tempski's works is “Born in Paradise,” an autobiography which became a bestseller. ] ) Paperback: ISBN 0-91802-434-X.
* 1946. "Aloha." (Sequel) Paperback: ISBN 0-918024-59-5. Hardcover: ISBN 0-91802-463-3.

;Fiction
* 1927. "Hula." Paperback: ISBN 0-91802-460-9. Hardcover: ISBN 0-91802-464-1.
* 1928. "Dust." Paperback: ISBN 0-91802-487-0. Hardcover: ISBN 0-91802-486-2.
* 1929. "Fire." Paperback: ISBN 0-91802-499-4.
* 1933. "Hawaiian Harvest." (Fictional account of the pineapple industry's beginnings on Maui) Paperback: ISBN 0-91802-472-2. Hardcover: ISBN 0-91802-473-0.
* 1935. "Ripe Breadfruit." Paperback: ISBN 0-91802-498-6.
* 1940. "Pam's Paradise Ranch." (For younger readers.) Paperback: ISBN 0-91802-496-X.
* 1941. "Judy of the Islands." Paperback: ISBN 0-91802-497-8.
* 1942. "Thunder in Heaven." Paperback: ISBN 0-91802-474-9. Hardcover: ISBN 0-91802-475-7.
* 1946. "Bright Spurs." Paperback: ISBN 0-91802-495-1.

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