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Edie Littlefield Sundby
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'''Edie Littlefield Sundby''' (born August 15, 1951) is an American author known for her memoir, ''[[The Mission Walker]]'', about her 1,600-mile walk along the [[El_Camino_Real_(California)|El Camino Real de las Californias mission trail]] after losing her right lung to cancer. The book was a 2018 Audie Award Finalist for Best Inspirational Book.<ref>https://ift.tt/2Hw52TD>
== Personal Life ==
She was born Edith Karen Littlefield, the second youngest of twelve children on a cotton farm in [https://ift.tt/2r72uA6 Caddo County Oklahoma] without electricity or running water.
Growing up in rural Oklahoma, she picked cotton for two cents a pound, sold Grit Newspapers [https://ift.tt/2Hw551L ("America's Greatest Family Newspaper",] worked as a carhop for forty cents an hour, and at the local weekly newspaper, where she did everything from clean floors to write a weekly column.
To pay for college at the University of Oklahoma, she worked as a door-to-door [https://ift.tt/2r5bkP2 Bible salesman] in Tennessee, a janitor, a philosophy journal proofreader, and a librarian – and graduated [https://ift.tt/2HyzpIY Phi Beta Kappa].
After a stint in corporate America, working as a sales executive for IBM, and an area vice president of Pacific Telesis, she became a technology entrepreneur.
In March 2007, she was diagnosed with stage 4 gallbladder cancer and given three months to live. Despite less than one percent chance of survival, after 79 rounds (almost one million milligrams) of chemotherapy - and 4 major surgeries, including the loss of her right lung, she walked the 1,600-mile El Camino Real mission trail through the Mexican sierra wilderness across the Sonoran Desert from Loreto, Mexico to Sonoma, California.
She and her husband live in San Diego, California and are the parents of two children.
==Bibliography==
*''[[The Mission Walker]]'', published by Thomas Nelson, a subsidiary of HarperCollins.
== References ==
Parade Magazine: [https://ift.tt/2r79tcv "Edie Littlefield Sundby Recounts Arduous Cancer Journey in The Mission Walker ".]
New York Post: [https://ift.tt/2uyOPVK "After 79 Rounds of Chemo Cancer Survivor Completes 1,600-mile Trek."]
Shape Magazine: [https://ift.tt/2tXkbBD "I Walked 1,600 Miles After I Was Given Three Months to Live."]
Simple Grace Magazine: [https://ift.tt/2Hw5bXb "Edie Littlefield Sundby Opens Up About Her 1600 Mile Walk With Stage IV Cancer."]
Los Angeles Angelus News: [https://ift.tt/2r6XhIv "The Mission Walker: Back on El Camino Real."]
San Diego Magazine: [https://ift.tt/2Hw5dhL "San Diego Women Who Are the Definition of Badass."]
Guideposts Magazine: [https://ift.tt/2rb5R9x "A Healing Trek Along the California Mission Trail."]
AARP Magazine: [https://ift.tt/2HyFIwf "Against All Odds".]
== External Links ==
''The Mission Walker'' [https://ift.tt/2r6sBav WEBSITE includes photographs and an interactive map of the El Camino de las Californias mission trail.]
== Personal Life ==
She was born Edith Karen Littlefield, the second youngest of twelve children on a cotton farm in [https://ift.tt/2r72uA6 Caddo County Oklahoma] without electricity or running water.
Growing up in rural Oklahoma, she picked cotton for two cents a pound, sold Grit Newspapers [https://ift.tt/2Hw551L ("America's Greatest Family Newspaper",] worked as a carhop for forty cents an hour, and at the local weekly newspaper, where she did everything from clean floors to write a weekly column.
To pay for college at the University of Oklahoma, she worked as a door-to-door [https://ift.tt/2r5bkP2 Bible salesman] in Tennessee, a janitor, a philosophy journal proofreader, and a librarian – and graduated [https://ift.tt/2HyzpIY Phi Beta Kappa].
After a stint in corporate America, working as a sales executive for IBM, and an area vice president of Pacific Telesis, she became a technology entrepreneur.
In March 2007, she was diagnosed with stage 4 gallbladder cancer and given three months to live. Despite less than one percent chance of survival, after 79 rounds (almost one million milligrams) of chemotherapy - and 4 major surgeries, including the loss of her right lung, she walked the 1,600-mile El Camino Real mission trail through the Mexican sierra wilderness across the Sonoran Desert from Loreto, Mexico to Sonoma, California.
She and her husband live in San Diego, California and are the parents of two children.
==Bibliography==
*''[[The Mission Walker]]'', published by Thomas Nelson, a subsidiary of HarperCollins.
== References ==
Parade Magazine: [https://ift.tt/2r79tcv "Edie Littlefield Sundby Recounts Arduous Cancer Journey in The Mission Walker ".]
New York Post: [https://ift.tt/2uyOPVK "After 79 Rounds of Chemo Cancer Survivor Completes 1,600-mile Trek."]
Shape Magazine: [https://ift.tt/2tXkbBD "I Walked 1,600 Miles After I Was Given Three Months to Live."]
Simple Grace Magazine: [https://ift.tt/2Hw5bXb "Edie Littlefield Sundby Opens Up About Her 1600 Mile Walk With Stage IV Cancer."]
Los Angeles Angelus News: [https://ift.tt/2r6XhIv "The Mission Walker: Back on El Camino Real."]
San Diego Magazine: [https://ift.tt/2Hw5dhL "San Diego Women Who Are the Definition of Badass."]
Guideposts Magazine: [https://ift.tt/2rb5R9x "A Healing Trek Along the California Mission Trail."]
AARP Magazine: [https://ift.tt/2HyFIwf "Against All Odds".]
== External Links ==
''The Mission Walker'' [https://ift.tt/2r6sBav WEBSITE includes photographs and an interactive map of the El Camino de las Californias mission trail.]
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