Marie-Claire Matip Marie-Claire Matip Marie-Claire-Eléonore-Débochère Matip (born 1938) is a Cameroonian writer living in Paris. The daughter of a tribal leader, she was born in Eséka; her father had about fifty children from several different mothers. She was schooled at home at first and then attended school locally. Then, she studied at a college for girls in Douala, where she wrote her novel "Ngonda". In 1956, she won a contest sponsored by "Elle" magazine and Air France that allowed her to travel to France; she returned the following year. In 1958, she studied for her baccalauréat at the Lycée Général Leclerc in
Town & Country (magazine) Town & Country (magazine) Town & Country, formerly the Home Journal and The National Press, is a monthly American lifestyle magazine. It is the oldest continually published general interest magazine in the United States. It was founded by poet and essayist Nathaniel Parker Willis and "New York Evening Mirror" newspaper editor George Pope Morris, as "The National Press" in 1846. Eight months later, it was renamed "The Home Journal". After 1901, the magazine title became ""Town & Country"" and it has retained that name ever since. Throughout most of the 19th century, this weekly magazine featured poetry, essays, and fiction.