Walter Havighurst
This article includes a improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (December 2015) ) |
Walter Edwin Havighurst (November 28, 1901 – February 3, 1994) was a critic, novelist, and literary and social historian of the Midwest. He was a professor of English at Miami University.
History
The son of
Havighurst joined the faculty of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio in 1928 and served interim terms on the faculties of
Personal life
Havighurst married
Havighurst's brother, Robert J. Havighurst, was a professor at the University of Chicago.
Works
Havighurst was the author of over 30 books, including Pier 17 and Annie Oakley of the Wild West. His writing earned awards from the Friends of American Writers, the American Association for State and Local History and the Rockefeller Foundation. River Road to the West received the American History Prize of the Society of Midland Authors.
A major
Published books
- Pier 17 (Macmillan Co.) (1935)
- The Quiet Shore (Macmillan Co.) (1937)
- The Upper Mississippi (Farrar & Rinehart) (1937) (Volume 2 of the Rivers of America Series)
- The Winds of Spring (Macmillan Co.) (1940)
- No Homeward Course Doubleday, Doran) (1940)
- The Long Ships Passing: The Story of the Great Lakes (Macmillan Co.) (1942)
- High Prairie, Walter and Marion Havighurst, illustrated by Gertrude Howe (Farrar & Rinehart, 1944)
- Land of Promise: The Story of the Northwest Territory (Macmillan Co.) (1946)
- Signature of Time (Macmillan Co.) (1949)
- John C. Winston Co., 1949)
- George Rogers Clark Soldier in the West McGraw Hill) (1952)
- Climb a Lofty Ladder: A Story of Swedish Settlement in Minnesota, Walter and Marion Havighurst, illus. Jill Elgin (Winston, 1952), LCCN 52-5500
- Annie Oakley of the Wild West Macmillan Co.) (1954)
- Wilderness for Sale: The Story of the First Western Land Rush (Hastings House) (1956)
- Buffalo Bill's Great Wild West Show (Random House) (1957)
- Vein of Iron: The Picklands Mather Story (The World Publishing Co.) (1958)
- The Miami Years: 1809-1959] (G. P. Putnam) (1958)
- The First Book of Pioneers: Northwest Territory (Franklin Watts, Inc.)(1959)
- Land of Long Horizons (Coward-McCann, Inc.) (1960)
- The First Book of the Oregon Trail (Franklin Watts, Inc.) (1960)
- The Heartland (Harper) (1962)
- The First Book of The California Gold Rush (Franklin Watts, Inc.) (1962)
- Voices on the River: The Story of the Mississippi Waterways Macmillan Co.) (1964)
- Proud Prisoner: Sir Henry Hamilton (Holt, Rinehart, Winston) (1964)
- Three Flags at the Straits: Forts of Mackinac (Prentice Hall) (1966) (Forts of America Series)
- The Great Lakes Reader (Collier Macmillan) (1966) (Editor)
- Alexander Spotswood: Portrait of a Governor ()Holt, Rinehart, Winston) (1967)
- River to the West: Three Centuries on the Ohio (G.P. Putnam) (1970)
- Men of Old Miami 1809-1873: A Book of Portraits (G. P. Putnam) (1974)
- From Six at First: A History of Phi Delta Theta 1848–1973 (George Banta Co., Inc.) (1975)
- Ohio: A Bicentennial Portrait (Norton) (1976)
- The Dolibois Years (Miami University Alumni Association)(1982)
References and sources
- Eulogy by Phillip R. Shriver
- Dictionary of Midwestern Literature Volume One: General Editor, Philip A. Greasley
External links
- Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies, Miami University
- Walter Havighurst Special Collections, Miami University
- Walter Havighurst at Library of Congress, with 10 library catalog records
- Marion Havighurst at Library of Congress, with 9 library catalog records