Nanelia Siegfriedt Doughty was born in 1907 in Seattle, Washington and received her early schooling there. Following her high school graduation she and her mother moved to Johannesburg, California during the Rand district mining boom. Doughty then attended Stanford University, graduating in 1930. She was an accomplished artist with her wood cuts of the Olympic (WA) peninsula attracting the attention of both artists and historians. In 1944 she married Frank Doughty. The couple divorced in 1957 and she returned to school, receiving her M.A. in English from Arizona State University at Tempe in 1963. After doing her doctoral work at the University of California at Riverside, she taught English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas from 1966 to 1972. Doughty died in 1987.
From the description of Nan Doughty Collection. [1907-1987] (University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries). WorldCat record id: 34660096
