Linnie Marsh Wolfe
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Linnie Marsh Wolfe (January 8, 1881 – September 15, 1945)
Biography
Linnie Marsh was born in
While working as a librarian, Wolfe gained an interest in the work of naturalist author
Alfred A. Knopf, Sr. asked her to write a biography of Muir. Wolfe interviewed Muir's daughters and other family members and associates Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir was published by Knopf in May 1945. Reviews were mixed, and Wolfe was criticized for "haphazard" documentation and a lack of critical judgement.[1] The Muir biographer and environmental historian Donald Worster notes that Wolfe's biography is largely based on her interviews, which were unrecorded and seem "embellished for dramatic effect".[4] Char Miller criticized Wolfe for including a conversation between Muir and Gifford Pinchot for which no documentary evidence appears to exist.[5] The book is required reading for rangers and volunteers at the John Muir National Historic Site.[6]
Wolfe died in a Berkeley, California, nursing home.[1] She did not live to receive her Pulitzer Prize in May 1946.[3]
References
- ^ a b c d e f "Linnie Marsh Wolfe." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2001. Gale Biography In Context. Retrieved September 4, 2012.
- ISBN 9780299186340.
- ^ a b c d e "Sketches of Those Just Added by Columbia's Trustees to Roll of Pulitzer Prize Winners". The New York Times. May 7, 1946. p. 14.
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ISBN 978-0-19-516682-8. Retrieved September 4, 2012.
- ^ Miller, Char (Summer 1993). "Linnie Marsh Wolfe: Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir". John Muir Newsletter. Retrieved September 4, 2012.
- United States National Park Service. May 6, 2012. Retrieved September 4, 2012.
External links
- Linnie Marsh Wolfe at Library of Congress, with 4 library catalog records
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