Carleton Mabee (December 24, 1914 – December 18, 2014) was an American writer who won the 1944 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for The American Leonardo: The Life of Samuel F B. Morse.[1]

Life

Mabee was born in Shanghai. He graduated from Bates College, and Columbia University. In 1945, he married Norma Dicking. He was professor emeritus at State University of New York at New Paltz.[2]

Mabee lived in Gardiner, New York.[3]

Works

References

  1. ^ "The Pulitzer Prizes - Awards". Retrieved 21 December 2014.
  2. ^ Elizabeth A. Brennan; Elizabeth C. Clarage (1999). Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 22–. ISBN 978-1-57356-111-2.
  3. ^ Quinn, Eric (Apr 7, 2013). "At 98, historian Carleton Mabee readies new book on Shawangunk land preservation controversies". New Palz Times. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
  4. ^ https://books.google.com
  5. ^ "Sojourner Truth Slave, Prophet, Legend". Project MUSE. Retrieved 3 September 2014. Pulitzer-Prize-winning biographer Carleton Mabee unearths heretofore-neglected sources and offers valuable new insights into the life of a woman who, against all odds, became a central figure in the struggle for the emancipation of slaves and women in Civil War America.


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