A painter and playwright, Sebree is the author of three plays: “My Mother Came Crying Most Pitifully” (1949), “Mrs. Patterson” (1954), and “Dry August” (1972). “Mrs. Patterson” was a Broadway musical starring Eartha Kitt. Sebree attended the Art Institute of Chicago, worked for the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s, and served in the army […]
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Daniel Berrigan
Berrigan was a Jesuit priest and anti-war activist famous for his radical spirituality. His participation in the Catonsville Nine, a group of Catholic activists who burned hundreds of Selective Service draft files to protest the war in Vietnam, put him on the FBI’s “most wanted list.” He founded the Plowshares Movement to protest nuclear weaponry […]
Claribel Alegría
Alegría is the author of poetry collections, including La mujer del río/Woman of the River (1989); Fuga de Canto Grande (1992); and Soltando amarras (2002). She won the Casa de las Américas prize in 1978 for Sobrevivo. Her fiction includes the novellas El detén (1977), Albúm familiar (1982), and Pueblo de Dios y de Mandinga (1985). Alegría also wrote Tres cuentos (1958) and other works for children. She was awarded […]
Richard McCann
McCann is the author of Mother of Sorrows (2006), a collection of linked stories that won the 2005 John C. Zacharis First Book Award from Ploughshares; and three books of poems: Ghost Letters (1994), winner of the Beatrice Hawley Award and the Capricorn Poetry Award, Nights of 1990 (1994), and Dream of the Traveler (1976). He […]
Augustus Goodyear Heaton
Heaton is the author of memoirs, poetry, and nonfiction on the visual arts and numismatics. His books include: Memories of Italy (1882), A Treatise on Coinage of the Unites States Branch Mints (1893), Fancies and Thoughts in Verse (1904), Yellowstone Letters (1906), and Color, A Treatise(1929). He edited a quarterly magazine, The Nutshell. Heaton, a […]
Caroline Healey Dall
Famous for her associations with the American Transcendentalists, Caroline Healy Dall was active in the National Woman’s Rights Convention, the New England Women’s Club, and co-founded the American Social Science Association. Dall was raised and lived most of her life in Boston. She married Charles Dall, a Unitarian minister, and had two children, but her […]
Edith Brown Mirick
Edith Brown Mirick attended Columbian College, the fore-runner to George Washington University, and published her poems in prominent journals such as Poetry, Voices, Hound & Horn, and Palms. She published three books of poems: 5 Poets (1929, a chapbook-sized selection of poems, presented along with four others), Flower and Weed (1930), and These Twinkling Acres […]
John Bigelow, Jr.
John Bigelow, Jr. wrote several books of nonfiction, including Breaches of Anglo/American Treaties (1917), World Peace (1915), Retrospections of an Active Life (1913), The Campaign of Chancellorsville (1910); Reminiscences of the Santiago Campaign (1899), Principles of Strategy (1894), and Mars-la-Tour and Gravelotte (1884). He also wrote extensively for magazines, including several pieces on the U.S. […]
Henrietta McCormick Hill
Henrietta McCormick Hill was the wife of Senator Lister Hill, the Democratic politician from Alabama who was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1923 and the U.S. Senate in 1938, serving until his retirement in 1969. During that time, Hill embraced the role of political wife, as she recounts in her posthumous book, A […]
Edith Bolling Galt Wilson
Edith Bolling Galt Wilson is the author of an autobiography, My Memoir (1938). She married twice, first to Norman Galt, owner of a DC jewelry store, and later to President Woodrow Wilson. Her second husband gave her full access to Oval Office meetings and decisions, including classified information. When the U.S. entered WWI in 1917, Wilson arranged to have sheep […]