Carleton Mabee
American writer, 1944 Pulitzer Prize winner (1914-2014)
Carleton Mabee (December 24, 1914 – December 18, 2014) was an American writer who won the 1944 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for The American Leonardo: The Life of Samuel F B. Morse.[1]
Life
Mabee was born in Shanghai. He graduated from Bates College, and Columbia University. In 1945, he married Norma Dicking. He was professor emeritus at State University of New York at New Paltz.[2]
Mabee lived in Gardiner, New York.[3]
Works
- The American Leonardo: A Life of Samuel F. B. Morse, 1943; Literary Licensing, LLC, 2013, ISBN 9781494113834[4]
- The Seaway Story, The Macmillan Company, 1961.
- Black Education in New York State: From Colonial to Modern Times, Syracuse University Press, 1979, ISBN 9780815622093
- Sojourner Truth: Slave, Prophet, Legend. NYU Press. 1 January 1995. ISBN 978-0-8147-5525-9.[5]
- Carleton Mabee (2003). Gardiner and Lake Minnewaska. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7385-1185-6.
- Black Freedom: The Nonviolent Abolitionists from 1830 Through the Civil War, The Macmillan Company, 1970, ISBN 9780025771703
- “Saving the Shawangunks: The Struggle to Protect one of Earth’s Great Places” Black Dome Press 2017
- "Bridging the Hudson": The Poughkeepsie Railroad Bridge and it's connecting Rail Lines. Purple Mountain Press, 2001
References
- ^ "The Pulitzer Prizes - Awards". Retrieved 21 December 2014.
- ^ Elizabeth A. Brennan; Elizabeth C. Clarage (1999). Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 22–. ISBN 978-1-57356-111-2.
- ^ Quinn, Eric (Apr 7, 2013). "At 98, historian Carleton Mabee readies new book on Shawangunk land preservation controversies". New Palz Times. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
- ^ https://books.google.com
- ^ "Sojourner Truth Slave, Prophet, Legend". Project MUSE. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
Pulitzer-Prize-winning biographer Carleton Mabee unearths heretofore-neglected sources and offers valuable new insights into the life of a woman who, against all odds, became a central figure in the struggle for the emancipation of slaves and women in Civil War America.
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Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography (1926–1950)
- Harvey Cushing (1926)
- Emory Holloway (1927)
- Charles Edward Russell (1928)
- Burton J. Hendrick (1929)
- Marquis James (1930)
- Henry James (1931)
- Henry F. Pringle (1932)
- Allan Nevins (1933)
- Tyler Dennett (1934)
- Douglas Southall Freeman (1935)
- Ralph Barton Perry (1936)
- Allan Nevins (1937)
- Odell Shepard/Marquis James (1938)
- Carl Van Doren (1939)
- Ray Stannard Baker (1940)
- Ola Elizabeth Winslow (1941)
- Forrest Wilson (1942)
- Samuel Eliot Morison (1943)
- Carleton Mabee (1944)
- Russel Blaine Nye (1945)
- Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1946)
- William Allen White (1947)
- Margaret Clapp (1948)
- Robert E. Sherwood (1949)
- Samuel Flagg Bemis (1950)
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