1980 Notable Wisconsin Authors
Rebecca
C. Barton
Madeline K. Doran
Robert C. Nesbit
Max C. Otto
Ethel Sabin Smith
Frances E. Willard
Rebecca
C. Barton, 1905-
Director of the Wisconsin Governor's Commission on Human Rights, 1948-1963.
Honors:
Outstanding
Madison Woman Writers of the Year, 1956, Ladies of the Press
Who's Who
of American Women, first edition
Books:
Race
Consciousness and the American Negro
Witnesses
for Freedom, 1948
Our
Human Rights, 1955
Black
Voices in American Fiction, 1900-1930, 1934
Madeline K. Doran, 1905-1996
Professor of English,
University of Wisconsin, 1935-1975.
Honors:
Guggenheim
Fellow, 1967-68
Member
of the Council of the Renaissance Society of America
Member
of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Wisconsin
Library Association, Banta Award, 1975
Books:
Endeavors
of Art: A Study of Form in Elizabethan Drama, 1954
Drama,
1954
Something
About Swans, 1973
Time's
Foot, 1974
Shakespeare's
Dramatic Language, 1976
Robert C. Nesbit, 1917-1999
Professor of history, University of Wisconsin, 1962-1982.
Honors:
Wisconsin
History Foundation grantee, 1971-72
American
Association for State and Local History Award of Merit, 1975
State Historical
Society of Wisconsin Award of Merit, 1975
Books:
Wisconsin,
a History, 1973
He Built
Seattle: A Biography of Judge Thomas Burke, 1961
The
History of Wisconsin, Vol. 3: Urbanization and industrialization,
1873-1893, 1985
Max C. Otto, 1874-1968
Professor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin; department chairman,
1936-1947.
Honors:
President
of the Western Division of the American Philosophical Association, 1929
Books:
Things
and Ideals, 1924
Natural
Laws and Human Hopes, 1926
The
Human Enterprise, 1940
Science
and the Moral Life, 1949
Ethel Sabin Smith, 1887-1991
Professor of Philosophy, Bryn Mawr.
Professor of Philosophy and Psychology, Mills College.
Honors:
San Jose
Mercury News Award for Women of Achievement, 1973
Testimonial,
Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association, 1976
Books:
The
Dynamics of Aging, 1956
Passports
at Seventy, 1961
A Furrow
Deep and True, 1964
God
and the Other Gods, 1973
Frances E. Willard, 1839-1898
Educator and social reformer.
Dean of the Women's College, Northwestern University,
1874.
National Women's Christian Temperance Union, president,
1879-1898.
World Women's Christian Temperance Union, president, 1887.
Books:
Glimpses
of Fifty Years, 1839-1889, 1889
A Woman
of the Century, 1893
Occupations
for Women, 1897
A Classic
Town: The Story of Evanston, 1892
