Two novels written in 1938 and 1939 received little notice, but in 1940, the publication of 'Quietly My Captain Waits', a novel set in Acadia (now Nova Scotia) in the early days of French settlement (New France), brought her commercial success.
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Born in Montreux, Switzerland, Eaton was the daughter of Canadians Daniel Isaac Vernon Eaton, an army officer from Nova Scotia, and Myra Fitzrandolph of New Brunswick.
Although she studied with composer Béla Bartók and studied at Budapest's Liszt Academy, she fled Hungary after World War II and moved to the United States, where she taught at Sweet Briar College and eventually moved to the small town of Independence, California, outside of Death Valley, where she lived with author Evelyn Eaton.
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