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1978 Notable Wisconsin Authors
Roy Chapman Andrews
Melvin Richard Ellis
Marguerite Henry
George Frost Kennan
Lorine Niedecker
Roy Chapman Andrews, 1884-1960
 Graduated
from Beloit College.
Famous explorer
and naturalist.
Was director
of the American Museum of Natural History.
Led the first
great scientific expedition into the Gobi Desert.
Was the leading
authority on the life and habits of whales before he was thirty.
"Roy
Chapman Andrews has never written a dull book or an unscientific one."
- Current Biography, 1941, p. 27.
Melvin Richard Ellis, 1912-1984
Conservationist
- his home in southern Wisconsin is an animal and bird sanctuary.
Outdoor editor
of Milwaukee Journal for fifteen years.
Associate editor of Field and Stream for twelve years.
Has written
sixteen books of fiction and non-fiction.
Has received
numerous writing and conservation awards, among them the Dorothy Canfield
Fisher Award for his novel, Flight of the White Wolf, in 1972,
and the Audubon Award in 1973.
Marguerite Henry, 1902-1997
Born in Milwaukee,
graduated from Milwaukee State Teachers' College.
Most acclaimed
for her horse books, of which there are about two dozen.
King of
the Wind won a Newbery Award in 1949.
Justin
Morgan Had a Horse and Misty of Chincoteague received Newbery
Honor Awards.
Misty
of Chincoteague, Brighty of the Grand Canyon and Justin Morgan
Had a Horse have been made into films.
San Domingo:
the Medicine Hat Stallion was adapted for television.
George Frost Kennan, 1904-
Born in Milwaukee,
graduated from St. John's Military Academy.
Former Ambassador
to Russia and leading expert on the Soviet Union.
Russia
Leaves the War received the Pulitzer Prize for history, the National
Book Award, the Bancroft and the Francis Parkman prizes.
Memoirs
received a Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
Lorine Niedecker, 1903-1970
Attended
Beloit College.
Little attention
paid to her poetry during lifetime. Read and appreciated mostly by other
poets.
Has been
compared to Sappho for the "spare and harmonious quality of her work."
- New York Times Book Review, February 13, 1977, p. 27.
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