Artis Henderson is an American journalist and essayist known for Unremarried Widow, her memoir of young marriage to a military officer. As a young widow, she experienced a rare event that put her at odds with her contemporaries, and her book is used as an example by the European Journal of Life Writing of a paradigm for the subgenre of young widow memoirs.
Books in order of publication:
Unremarried Widow – 2014
No Ordinary Bird: Drug Smuggling, a Plane Crash, and a Daughter’s Quest for the Truth – 2025
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