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The Honourable Perdita Caroline Buchan (born 16 December 1940) is an United Kingdom-United States author and journalist.
As a writer she uses her maiden name, but is also known by her married name of Perdita Buchan Connolly.
A half-plate photograph of Buchan at the age of one month, with her mother, is in the National Portrait Gallery, London. Nesta Irene Buchan (née Crozier, later Parry); Hon. Perdita Caroline Connolly (née Buchan) dated 17 January 1941 at npg.org.uk, accessed 9 January 2016 After her divorce, Buchan's mother married secondly Richard Parry (1916–1989), a Harvard-educated naval officer then working in London for the U.S. Maritime Commission, R. Parry, 73, Antique-map Dealer, obituary at Philly.com, accessed 9 January 2016 and later moved with her daughter to the United States. They settled at Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, where Nesta Parry had two further children, and at the time of her death was still living there. Nesta Crozier Parry at legacy.com/obituaries, accessed 9 January 2016
In November 1968 Buchan married Edward Connolly, and they had a daughter. She and Connolly were divorced in 1977.
In 2003 she was living in Ocean Grove, New Jersey. She has also lived in Concord, Massachusetts, and is a Trustee of the Whitesbog Preservation Trust. Board of Trustees & Staff at Whitesbog.org, accessed 10 January 2016
Her Utopia, New Jersey: Travels in the Nearest Eden (2007) is a study of eight utopia in the state of New Jersey in the 19th century and the first half of the 20th. Utopia, New Jersey: Travels in the Nearest Eden at jstor.org, accessed 9 January 2016
Life
Arriving in the US as a child, Buchan lived at Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. For her college education she went to Radcliffe, where her subject was English and as a freshman she took archery for her compulsory sport. She graduated in 1962,Perdita Buchan, 'Cliffe Notes, Harvard Magazine, May/June 2002, accessed 10 January 2016 and her first book, Girl with a Zebra, was published in 1966. A well-reviewed campus novel, its main characters are Emily and Blaise, students at Radcliffe and Harvard, who fall in love while Emily is looking after the biology department's zebra. A violent episode results in Emily and the zebra disappearing. Best Sellers, Vol. 26 (1966), p. 232 Girl with a Zebra at handbookkehand.eu, accessed 9 January 2015 Girl with a Zebra at kirkusreviews.com, accessed 14 January 2015 After that, Buchan wrote short stories for The New Yorker. Perdita Buchan at newyorker.com/contributors, accessed 9 January 2016 From 1972 to 1974 she was a Bunting Institute Fellow in creative writing, and she went on to teach in the writing program at Rutgers University.Footnote to 'Cliffe Notes, Harvard Magazine, May/June 2002, accessed 9 January 2016
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Categories: 1940 Births, 20th-century American Novelists, Living People, People From Neptune Township, New Jersey, Radcliffe College Alumni, Rutgers University Faculty, The New Yorker People, 20th-century American Short Story Writers, Novelists From New Jersey, English Emigrants To The United States, Writers From Monmouth County, New Jersey
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