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Chenoweth Hall was an artist, musician, writer and the 60+ year friend and companion of writer Miriam Colwell. Chennie, as her friends knew her, was born in New Albany, Indiana, and was a musicology graduate of the University of Wisconsin. When she moved to New York, she first taught music in a New Jersey elementary school. She was next an advertising copywriter and also played violin in the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra.
Hall, a Maine summer visitor, moved to Maine in 1940 to paint, sculpt, and write. Eight of Hall's paintings can be viewed on the Gleason Fine Arts web page. One of her most noted sculptures, a 4.5 ton memorial to conductor Pierre Monteux, is located in Hancock where Monteux moved his conductor's school from Paris in 1944.
Hall published two books, both of which have Maine connections. Her novel, The Crow on the Spruce, was first published in 1946 and reprinted as a paperback in 1999. She also wrote the text for photographer Berenice Abbott's A Portrait of Maine (1968).
Before her retirement in 1978, Hall was artist-in-residence and associate professor of art at the University of Maine, Machias, for ten years. During the last ten years of her life she was an Alzheimer Disease patient. More information about Hall's accomplishments can be found in the Ellsworth American; another Hall obituary is available through the Bangor Daily News.
Hall, who lives now with his wife Sheila in Richmond, Maine, is a Brunswick native, raised there and in Bowdoinham and Durham. A long-time professional musician and a Vietnam War veteran, Hall has held a variety of jobs, though he knew at age 18 that he wanted to be a writer. He published a short story, "Wasps," in 1995, and his first novel, The Lost Village -- a horror tale about "a strange little village that has somehow gone adrift from the rest of the world" -- was published in print-on-demand format in 2003. The Holocaust Opera, a collection of two novellas and seven short stories, was published in 2005.
Hall has a website with more biographical information and the prologue and an excerpt from The Lost Village. There's also an interview with Hall in The Writers Room magazine in which he talks about his experience writing and publishing.
Chef, author, lecturer, and entrepreneur James 'Buddy' Haller, originally from the Chicago area, lives in South Berwick, Maine. In November 1970, he and two partners opened the Blue Strawbery restaurant in Portsmouth, NH, and for 16 years Haller was co-owner and executive chef at the renowned and popular restaurant. Haller was featured on New Hampshire Public TV's 'The Holiday Chef' in 1975, and was resident chef for 'Good Day' on WCVB-TV (Boston) from 1975-1985. In 1986, Haller left the Blue Strawbery and became executive chef and owner of a restaurant in Memphis (TN) for two years before becoming guest chef from 1988-1989 at The Creamery, Canterbury Shaker Village, Canterbury, New Hampshire. Since the early 1980s, Haller has spent time working with the terminally and critically ill, as a volunteer and board member of Seacoast Hospice of Exeter, New Hampshire; one of his books offers help for people whose appetites wane when going through serious illness. Haller now lectures on food and cooking and gives classes to hospice patients and their families.
Some columns written by Haller, including a few local restaurant reviews and articles on cooking for the very ill are available online, as is more biographical information on Haller and some of his recipes.
Haller's books include:
Helen Hamlin was born and raised in Fort Kent and attended Madawaska Training School. She taught at remote Churchill Lake in the 1940s, married twice (once to a Maine guide), and wrote two books about her life in the Maine wilderness, Nine Mile Bridge: Three Years in the Maine Woods (1945) and Pine, Potatoes, and People (1948; informal anecdotes). Hamlin received the outstanding alumnus award from the Univ. of Maine-Fort Kent in 1988.
Liz Hand, who lives in Lincolnville, Maine, and London, is a science fiction novelist, short story writer, reviewer, playwright, and comic book writer. She was born in California and grew up in Pound Ridge, NY, received her B.A in playwriting and cultural anthropology from The Catholic University of America in 1984 (after a punk interlude), worked for a number of years at the Smithsonian's National Air & Space Museum, quit to write full time, and moved to Maine in 1988. She has two children with Maine novelist Richard Grant. Her current partner is UK critic John Clute.
Hand is the author of six novels, including Waking the Moon, which received both the James Tiptree Jr. and Mythopeic Society Awards, Her first three novels -- Winterlong, Aestival Tide, and Icarus Descending -- were all finalists for the Philip K. Dick Award, and her novella Last Summer at Mars Hill, won the 1995 Nebula and World Fantasy Awards.
Besides her novels, Hand has also written numerous reviews, stories, and essays for the Washington Post (a regular contributor since 1988), the Detroit Metro Times, Village Voice, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, The Writer, Reflex, Science Fiction Age, Science Fiction Eye, and Penthouse, among others. Her review of Pat Cadigan's Synners, published in the New York Review of Science Fiction, March 1991, is available online, as are her review of Colin Harrison's Afterburn, Feb. 2000, and her article "The Metamorphosis of Stephen King" (and review of Hearts in Atlantis), Sept. 1999, both in the Village Voice. She also wrote an article on women and feminism in science fiction writing in the 7 April 2002 Washington Post.
Hand collaborated with Paul Witcover to create and write DC Comics' "gonzo-feminist" cult series Anima (you can see the comic book covers on Witcover's website). Her one-act play, "The Have-Nots," was produced in 1997 at the Battersea Arts Center as part of London's Fringe Theater Festival, and she has also written several novelizations of films and TV show episodes.
Works include:
A story by Hand -- 'Chip Crockett's Christmas Carol' -- is available from Scifi.com. A print article about Hand, 'Elizabeth Hand: Reflections of a Catholic School Girl,' is available from Locus magazine, Oct. 1995, and an online interview with her from 2002 is available from the same source. More info on her website.
Woody Hanstein, who received his bachelor in general studies from the University of Michigan in 1975 and his J.D. from the University of Idaho in 1979, lives in Farmington where he is a trial lawyer with Joyce, Dumas, David & Hanstein, P.A. He's been involved in high-profile criminal and civil trials and has argued a cases in Maine Supreme Court. He defended Mark Bechard, who in 1996 was accused of brutally killing two nuns and wounding two others at Servants of the Blessed Sacrament convent in Waterville; Bechard was found not guilty by reason of insanity. Hanstein is also a lecturer on law in the social sciences department at the University of Maine-Farmington and coaches the UMF Rugby team.
Hanstein has written four legal thrillers featuring small-town lawyer Pete Morris: Not Proven (2000); Cold Snap (2001), sequel to Not Proven; State's Witness (2002), and Mistrial: A Pete Morris Mystery (2003).
Robert Harnum was born in Maine and educated at the University of Maine. He opposed the war in Vietnam, emigrating to Canada where he pursued graduate and doctoral studies at the University of Toronto and Université Laval. He simultaneously pursued a musical career. Harnum has taught at the University of Connecticut, in France at La Grande École de Commerce de Rouen, and currently teaches French at Brewer High School in Brewer, Maine. His novel Exile in the Kingdom (2001) was published in France and Canada as La Dernière Sentinelle and is his first novel published in the U.S. His novels Le Festin des Lions (1998; The Feast of the Lions), Poursuite (2001; Continuation), and Une Rhapsodie Américaine (2002) have been issued in France and Canada only.
Marsden Hartley is one of America's most admired and respected modernist painters. See entries in the ArtLex Visual Arts Dictionary for definitions and links to both art and literature of the period. Given the name of Edmund Hartley at birth, he assumed the name Marsden, his stepmother's last name, when he was in his early 20s.
The youngest of nine children, Hartley was born in Lewiston, Maine. When he was eight, his mother died. Since the family had little money, he left school at an early age to work in a shoe factory. By 1890 he had moved to Cleveland where he rejoined his family who had moved there to seek better employment. Hartley, primarily self-taught, was a student for a short time at the Cleveland Art School. After moving to New York, he studied with William Merritt Chase and at the National Academy of Design and the Art Student League.
Hartley, through his association with several New York artists, met Alfred Stieglitz whose 291 Gallery became one of the key art institutions of the early 20th century. For information on Stieglitz, see the entry in the Encyclopedia of Photography. With Stieglitz's assistance, Hartley traveled, studied, and painted in Paris and Germany from 1912 through 1915. He returned often to France and Germany in the 20s and 30s. By the mid-30s, however, he determined to return to his New England roots, first in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and then Maine. In fact, Hartley, in a 1937 essay titled, "On the Subject of Nativeness: A Tribute to Maine," declared that he wished to be known as the native painter of Maine. The essay can be found in Gail Scott's On Art by Marsden Hartley (1982). Many of his paintings and drawings from the 30s and 40s focus on the Lovell area, Mount Katahdin, and the coast and fishermen of the Corea area. Hartley died in Ellsworth and his ashes were scattered on the Androscoggin River.
The Bates College Museum of Art, located in Lewiston, has a noted collection of Hartley paintings and drawings. The largest Hartley collection - 54 works on paper and 61 paintings - is located at The Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota. The museum's web site provides an overview of Hartley's varied styles and images of eight portraits and landscapes. The City Review critiques an exhibit/catalog titled "Seeking the Spiritual: The Paintings of Marsden Hartley" and also provides links to other online Hartley images. Artcyclopedia also gives access to online sites that contain Hartley paintings and drawings.
In addition to being a gifted artist, Hartley was also a poet and essayist. By 1916, his writing had become an important part of his creative life. Just as Stieglitz encouraged him in his artistic efforts, Gertrude Stein, Hart Crane , and Sherwood Anderson encouraged Hartley to write. Like many other writers, he was first published in little magazines such as The Little Review, The Dial, Poetry, Contact, and others. His first book, Adventures in the Arts: Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets, a collection of essays, was published in 1921 and reprinted in 1972. His first poetry book, Twenty-Five Poems (1923), was published in Paris. The only other poetry books published during his life, Androscoggin (1940) and Sea Burial (1941), were privately published in Portland, Maine. Selected Poems (1945), Eight Poems and One Essay by Marsden Hartley (1976), Cleophas and His Own: A North Atlantic Tragedy (1982), plus a collection of letters titled Heart's Gate: Letters Between Marsden Hartley and Horace Traubel, 1906-1915 (1982) were published posthumously.
Since 1980, Hartley's work as an artist and poet has gained increased attention from both the art and academic worlds. Marsden Hartley (1980), a book-length exhibit catalog written by Barbara Haskell, is one of the seminal texts in the Hartley revival. Art historian Gail Scott has published four books/catalogs on the artist. The titles are On Art (1982), a collection of the artist's essays; Collected Poems of Marsden Hartley, 1904-1943 (1987; a list of the book's poems can be found on Amazon.Com); Marsden Hartley (1988), an art history study; and Marsden Hartley and Nova Scotia (1987), an exhibit catalog.
Other recent titles about Hartley include: Marsden Hartley: The Biography of an American Artist (1992); Pinnacles and Pyramids: The Art of Marsden Hartley (1993); Speaking for Vice: Homosexuality in the Art of Charles DeMuth, Marsden Hartley and the First American Avant-garde (1993); Marsden Hartley (1995), a biographical/critical study; Dictated by Life: Marsden Hartley's German Paintings and Robert Indiana's Hartley Elegies (1995); Marsden Hartley: An American Modern (1997), exhibit catalog; Marsden Hartley: The Biography of an American Artist (1998), reprint with new preface of 1992 book of same title. Of special note is the 1996 publication of Hartley's autobiography, Somehow a Past: The Autobiography of Marsden Hartley.
Corrilla Hastings, who grew up in Maine and attended Wellesley College as a botany major, ran Brick Farm Nursery and Garden Center in Skowhegan with her husband James for 30 years before retiring recently. Her first book is a mystery set in Maine, titled Dead Lady at Green Meadows, published in 1998. The reviews of Dead Lady on Amazon bookstore's site are very favourable.
Katharine Butler Hathaway was born in Baltimore and lived for much of her youth in Salem, Massachusetts. She suffered from spinal tuberculosis, and though she was strapped to a board for 10 years in an effort to cure her deformed spine, she remained physically crippled, though mobile, throughout her life. After attending Radcliffe College, she lived and wrote in Maine (buying a house in Castine in 1921), and later in New York City and Paris, where she was a part of the vibrant artists' culture of the 1920s. In the early 1930s she returned to settle on the coast of Maine with her husband, Daniel Hathaway.
The Little Locksmith, which she called her "bread and butter letter to God " and which details both her suffering and her triumphant spirit, was published a year after her death (1943/2000), and in 1946 a collection of her writings and drawings was published as The Journals and Letters of the Little Locksmith. The Little Locksmith was chosen by NPR's Fresh Air Book Critic Maureen Corrigan as one of her six Best Books in 2000.
Horror and suspense writer Hautala graduated from University of Maine-Orono, lives in Westbrook, and frequently appears for book-signings and book-readings at local bookstores. Recent books are Last Breath (2004), co-written with Christopher Golden, involving medical examiner Jenna Blake in a series of murders wrought by a psychokiller, who is drowning his victims in Boston's most public places, and Throat Culture (Body of Evidence), in 2005, also with Golden; Four Octobers (2003-04), a collection of nostalgic supernatural/suspense 'coming of age' novellas set in fictional Stonepoint; Bedbugs (1999?), a collection of 26 short stories, mostly set in Maine; The Hidden Saint (1999; based on TV series "Poltergeist: The Legacy," in which ghost-hunters pursue evil from San Francisco to Boston and into Maine); Impulse (1996), which is partially set in Hilton, Maine; and The Mountain King (1996/2001), set in Bolton, Maine.
His collection titled Untcigahunk: The Complete Little Brothers, featuring the novel Little Brothers plus five short stories and three myths concerning the creatures who emerge from underground every five years to wreak havoc on the Maine town of Thornton, was published as part of Volume 4 of the Dark Essentials series by Delirium Press in 2006. Hautala and Thomas F. Monteleone are co-writing Eddie Poe, P.I., a collection of stories featuring a modern-day descendant of Edgar Alan Poe who works as a private investigator in Baltimore and whose cases parallel stories and poems by Poe, due out in 2006. And Hautala is co-writing an original Creature from the Black Lagoon novel with Christopher Golden, to be released sometime in 2006.
Other novels include Moondeath(1980), Moonbog (1982), Night Stone (1986), Little Brothers (1988), Winter Wake (1989), Moon Walker (1989), Cold Whisper (1991), Dark Silence (1992), Dead Voices, Ghost Light (1993), Twilight Time (1994), Shades of Night (1995), and Beyond the Shroud (1995). Short stories include "Crying Wolf" and "Bird in the House."
Hautala also writes under a pseudonym, A.J. Matthews, publishing the horror novel The White Room in 2001. Other novels published under the pen name are Looking Glass (2004) and Follow (2005).
Illustrator/writer Kevin Hawkes was born in Sherman, Texas. Growing up in a military family, he lived in a number of places in both the United States and Europe. After receiving his B.A. in illustration from Utah State University in 1985, he moved to Boston where he worked in a book store and did freelance illustration. Kevin and his family moved to Maine in 1990. Their first home was on Peaks Island, which is a part of the city of Portland. The Hawkes family now lives in Gorham, Maine.
In 1991, Hawkes' first books, Then the Troll Heard the Squeak and a Christmas anthology, A Christmas Treasury: Very Merry Stories and Poems, were published. The following year he published His Royal Buckliness. In 'Something About the Author', Hawkes states his images and palette are perhaps influenced by his experiences as a child in Europe. An interview with Harpers is available online. More on Hawkes at his website (requires Flash).
In addition to his own books, Kevin Hawkes has a busy career illustrating other authors' work. The titles include:
Born in Salem, Mass, Hawthorne graduated from Bowdoin with Longfellow in 1825. His book Fanshawe, published anonymously in 1828, was set at Bowdoin College, which offers an online collection guide to Hawthorne's personal papers. Hawthorne also lived in Portland in 1818 and in Raymond for a few years around 1816.
Bartleby's extensive excerpt on Hawthorne, from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, offers chapters on Hawthorne and Puritanism, His Relations with the Transcendentalists, The Facts of his Life, Early Stories, Later Romances, His Close Observation of Life, and Transcendental Doctrines in Hawthorne. The Hawthorne pages in the Early American Fiction section of the University of Virginia Library (scroll down) access to many online texts (though only a few are accessible to the public). Bedford/St. Martin publishers also offers a biography and timeline of Hawthorne's life. The Hawthorne Society publishes the Nathaniel Hawthorne Review, available to members of the society.
A full-text version of The Scarlet Letter (1850) is online, as well as generous background material on The Scarlet Letter and Hawthorne, through the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Many Hawthorne short stories are available in their entirety through Classic Reader. Teachers can find college-level lesson tips for teaching Hawthorne at Houghton Mifflin's site, as well as lots of background, print resources, and discussion questions from Paul Reuben's Perspectives in American Literature Hawthorne page. Lesson plans for teaching Hawthorne at all grade levels are found at the Internet School Library Media Center. An excellent essay on Hawthorne's short fiction and prose sketches is found on the Guide to Classic Mystery and Detection Home Page.
An incomplete Hawthorne bibliography includes:
Heinrich is a naturalist, a scientist, and a world-class ultra-marathon runner (he was a member of the Univ. of Maine cross-country team). Heinrich teaches at the University of Vermont and lives almost half the year in a rustic Maine cabin that he built himself. Heinrich has a page about himself and his research through the Univ. of Vermont website, and there is a short abstract of a longer article about Heinrich that appeared in Smithsonian's Nov. 1997 issue online.
His books include Bumblebee Economics (1979), In a Patch of Fireweed (1984, about insects), One Man's Owl (1987), Ravens in Winter (1989), The Hot-Blooded Insects: Strategies and Mechanics of Thermoregulation (1993), A Year in the Maine Woods (1994), The Thermal Warriors: Strategies of Insect Survival (1996), The Trees in My Forest (1997), Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds (1999), Racing the Antelope: What Animals Can Teach Us About Running and Life (2001), Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival (2003), and The Geese of a Beaver Bog (2003).
The May 1998 issue of "Yankee" magazine had a nine-page in-depth story on Heinrich, along with several photos. His entire CV is available in PDF format (12 pp.)
Poet Barbara Holland -- often called "the most widely published unknown poet in America" -- was born in Portland, Maine, and raised in Philadelphia. Her parents were both professors, and her father was also chief of the fine arts division at the Library of Congress. Holland graduated from the Baldwin School in 1943, attended Smith College, and went on to earn a B.A. and an M.A. in English literature from the University of Pennsylvania, then moved to New York City's Greenwich Village, where she worked as a poet until her death in 1988. Previously, she had also edited an edition of the Merriam-Webster dictionary, researched genealogies, and translated Spanish poetry.
Holland's poems have been published in more than a thousand literary journals, including The New York Poetry Quarterly, The Beloit Poetry Review, and Antioch Review. Described as both a romantic and surrealist who was influenced by the paintings of Rene Magritte, Holland was well known as a powerful reader of her own poetry.
Books and chapbooks include:
More on Holland, and many of her poems, are available through Poetry Magazine and there are a couple of essays on Holland through Poet's Press. Most of Holland's books now sell for $25-75 through second-hand book dealers.
[Thanks to Tom Fallon for his help with this article.]
When Harpswell resident Doris Anne Holman moved to Maine in 1970, she chose to live in Wayne, the location of summer vacations for generations of her family. She grew up in Chevy Chase, Maryland, and graduated in 1959 from Goucher College.
She taught in Virginia and Maryland schools and received a Masters in Reading from Loyola College in 1969. After her move to Maine, she continued her teaching career in elementary and middle schools and taught 27 years in Monmouth schools.
Although her education and career focused on teaching and reading, art was and is her passion. Her website provides information about her formal and informal art studies and some of the permanent collections that include her work. She is a watercolor artist whose work has been exhibited in a number of galleries in Maine, Canada, Florida and Bermuda. Her work is also on exhibit in her Round the Corner Art Gallery, which is located in her Harpswell home. She combines her gifts of teaching and painting to present workshops for both adults and children in both Maine and Florida.
A Maine Arts Commission juried member, Holman and her daughter Anita Charles taught a two week literature/art class on Homer's The Odyssey at the Long Creek Development Center, formerly known as the Maine Youth Center, South Portland.
She published her first book, Come With Me to the Sea (1998) as a way to introduce her grandchildren to the ocean. The illustrations were painted at Reid State Park and Popham Beach. A sequel, Come With Me to the Pond (2004) was inspired by three Maine lakes.
Her other books are:
Children's book writer Barbara Ware Holmes was born in Virginia and lives now in both Collingswood, New Jersey, and Port Clyde, Maine. She received her M.A. from Northeastern University in 1969. Her novels include Charlotte Cheetham, Master of Disaster (1985), Charlotte the Starlet (1988), Charlotte Shakespeare & Annie the Great (1989), My Sister the Sausage Roll (1997), Letters to Julia (1997; won the ALA Best Young Adult Novel award; Amazon reviews of Letters), and Following Fake Man (2001), which is set in Maine.
Ted Holmes, who lives in Winterport and has been a Maine resident since 1939, was born in Montclair, New Jersey. His undergraduate degree is from Dartmouth College. He also earned a Masters of Education from the University of Maine, and a Masters of Arts and a Ph.D. from Brown University. He is professor emeritus of the University of Maine where he taught English classes from 1956 to 1977. In retirement he continued to teach honors classes and edited The Nightshade Short Story Reader (1991) and several issues of the literary journal Potato Eyes. Nightshade Press, in Troy, Maine, published both the reader and the journal.
Holmes' novel and short stories are set in small town coastal Maine. His prior experiences as a lobster trucker, clam digger, organizer of a fishermen's cooperative, and involvement in other shore-based maritime industries provide the reader with an insightful look inside traditional fishing communities.
Holmes' Maine fiction includes:
His stories were also published in An Anthology of Maine Literature (1982), Maine Speaks (1989), The Maine Reader (1991), and The Quotable Moose (1994), edited by Wes McNair.
Holmes' two literary studies are Faulkner's Twice-Told Tales; His Reuse of His Material (1966) and Harriet Beecher Stowe: Woman and Artist (1991) with a foreword by University of Maine professor/writer Josephine Donovan.
Hannah Holmes, science and natural history writer, is a resident of South Portland. She is a 1982 Boothbay Harbor Regional High School graduate and a 1989 graduate of the University of Southern Maine. During her college years she wrote for Portland area magazines and newspapers. Following her graduation from USM, she moved to New York where, for four years, she was on the staff of Garbage, an environmental magazine. She then returned to Maine and continued her magazine feature writing career. Her work has appeared in Sierra, Outside, National Geographic Traveler, and Escape, as well as the online ScienceNet (UK). She also has been a regular contributor and 'The Skinny' columnist at Discovery Channel Online, for which she's written articles on the Hubble space telescope, life in the deep sea, peanut butter and nuclear power, 'tree spit' (amber), the causes of sneezing, traffic jams, teflon, and Latin names for living things. Holmes appeared on NPR's 'Fresh Air' on 12 April 2002. More biographical info and a photo are available from the University of Southern Maine alumni magazine, Mainestream, Spring 2002.
Her first book, The Secret Life of Dust: From the Cosmos to the Kitchen Counter, The Big Consequences of Little Things was published in 2001. Her second, Suburban Safari: A Year on the Lawn, was published in 2005.
Phil Hoose (pronounced "hose") was born in South Bend, Indiana, and grew up in nearby towns. He attended Indiana University and the Yale School of Forestry. He and his family -- wife Shoshana, and daughters Hannah and Ruby -- now live in Portland, Maine, where Hoose has worked for the Nature Conservancy for over two decades. Shoshana Hoose is a journalist and documentary film producer. The Hoose family performed for several years throughout New England as The Hoose Family Band ( photo of the Hoose family available online). Their original music was featured on National Public Radio's Weekend Edition. Hoose is a founder and director of the Children's Music Network, established in 1986 as a resource for parents, educators, and performers of music by and for children.
Hoose's books include three non-fiction works for adults, Necessities: Racial Barriers in American Sports (1989), an account of racism in American sports; Hoosiers: The Fabulous Basketball Life of Indiana (1995); The Race to Save the Lord God Bird (2004), about the disappearance of the ivory-billed woodpecker (also reviewed by Noreen O'Brien in Wolf Moon Press Journal); and Perfect Once Removed: When Baseball Was All the World to Me (2006). His books for children and teens include:
Lee Hope is director of the Stonecoast Writers' Conference (Brunwsick, Maine) and teaches at the University of Southern Maine, where she is faculty advisor for the arts journal Words & Images. A recipient of fellowships from the Maine Arts Commission and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Hope's short stories appears in Witness, New Virginia Review, The North American Review, the Beloit Fiction Journal, and others.
Pauline Hopkins -- journalist, essayist, novelist and poet, publisher, lecturer, historian, actress, musician; and stenographer for the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics -- is known as the "Dean of African-American Women Writers." She was born in Portland, Maine, but moved to Boston as an infant and attended public schools there. After winning a literary competition at the age of 15, she went on to write prolifically.
Her first play, "Slaves' Escape: or the Underground Railroad," was produced in Boston in 1880. Her 1900 novel, Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South follows the fortunes of a racially mixed family from 1790 Bermuda to late 19th-century Boston, and emphasises feminist themes of female bonding and empowerment; it was reprinted by Oxford University Press in 1988 and a classroom curriculum unit based on Contending Forces appears online. Other works, which often feature mulatto characters and their struggles, include Hagar's Daughters: A Story of Southern Class Prejudice (1902), Of One Blood, or, The Hidden Self (1903), the 31-page booklet A Primer of Facts Pertaining to the Greatness of the African Race and the Possibility of Restoration By Its Descendants (1905), and a four-part magazine series on the global African community, "The Dark Races of the Twentieth Century," published in The Voice of the Negro.
Hopkins also founded and was literary editor of the first significant African-American journal of the 20th century, the Boston-based Colored American magazine. She wrote numerous magazine essays and articles (sometimes using the pseudonym Sarah A. Allen), some of which are collected in The Magazine Novels of Pauline Hopkins (1988, Oxford Univ. Press), and she became a frequent lecturer on black history. For more about Hopkins, read this Hopkins biography by Runoko Rashidi. Paul Reuben's American Literature Web site offers an extensive bibliography of articles about Hopkins. Hopkins' papers are collected at Fisk University Library in Nashville, Tenn.
William R. Hopkins, born on North Haven Island, attended the University of Maine. In addition to his teaching career on North Haven and Vinalhaven, and in Rockland and Orono, he had a variety of jobs, most of which were related to the maritime world in which he lived. He was a fisherman, a party boat operator, a licensed pilot, a ferry boat captain. In 1970 he privately published Freeman Cooper, a novel of island life in which Freeman confronts his love/hate feelings toward island living. Excerpts from the novel have been published in Killick Stones, A Collection of Maine Island Writing (1987) and The Maine Reader (1991).
After Hopkins's death from cancer, letters he wrote during his last year were published in Better Than Dying.
Deborah Hopkinson grew up in Lowell, Mass. and vacationed yearly in Rangeley, Maine, as a child. She received a BA in English from the Univ. of Hawaii and she lives now in Walla Walla, Washington, with her husband and two kids, where she's director of development and administration at Whitman College. Hopkinson has a website with more info on her and her books, and links for teachers and kids.
Hopkinson's books include:
Richard Hornberger, who wrote a number of M*A*S*H books as Richard Hooker, received his medical degree from Cornell Medical School, specialized in surgery, and served as an Army Medical Corps surgeon with the 8055th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in Korea; his war experiences were the basis for his very popular novel, M*A*S*H (1968), which he wrote while waiting for patients at his offices in Bremen, Maine, and which was made into a movie in 1970 (screenplay by Ring Lardner, Jr.) and a long-running television series (1972-1983). He based the character of Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce on himself, although the political conservative said he said he never liked Alan Alda's portrayal of the character in the TV series. After the war, Hornberger worked briefly in a veterans' hospital before opening a surgical practice in Waterville, Maine, which he maintained until retirement in 1988. He died of leukemia in 1997.
Books include:
Co-author William E. Butterworth is also known as W.E.B. Griffin, the military novelist.
For more information on M*A*S*H, the phenomenon, try Andy Lawson's MASH 4077 Homepage.
Born in Bangor, Blanche Willis Howard was a popular novelist who wrote romantic tales and several travel books. In 1875, she published her first novel, One Summer, which had a Maine setting. The popularity of the novel gave Howard name recognition and enabled her to obtain an assignment from the Boston Evening Transcript. She toured Europe and wrote articles about travel and local customs. With the exception of returning to the United States for visits with her family and to meet with her American publishers, she remained in Stuttgart, Germany, where she continued to write and also studied music, philosophy, and science. Documents in the Maine Women Writers Collection suggest she also conducted some type of finishing school for American girls and young women. In 1890 she married Dr. Julius von Teuffel, a physician, and she became the Baroness von Teuffel.
Her publications include:
"Dream-Folk," a poem, and the short story Marigold- Michael can be read online.
Born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Sue Hubbell attended Swarthmore College and the University of Michigan before receiving her A.B. in journalism from the University of Southern California in 1956. She also earned an M.S. from Drexel Institute in 1963. She has been a book store manager, an elementary school librarian, and was also employed as a librarian by Trenton State College, Trenton, NJ, and by Brown University, Providence, RI. Her brother, Bil Gilbert, is also a prolific naturalist author.
In 1973, Hubbell and her first husband, Paul Hubbell, both of whom were anti-war activists, made the decision to leave their positions at Brown and the University of Rhode Island and significantly reduce their incomes so they would not be contributing taxes to the war effort. For a year they and their son Brian traveled around the country before deciding to purchase land in Missouri where they became commercial beekeepers. When she and her husband divorced after 30 years of marriage, Hubbell continued the honey business alone.
To supplement her income, Hubbell wrote articles for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Thirty-three of the articles were later published in On This Hilltop (1991). In an interview in the January 1996 Missouri Conservationist Magazine Online, Hubbell speaks about life on her farm and about writing Country Year: Living the Questions (1986), which brought her immediate attention from both book critics and general readers. The book, considered an American natural history classic, remains in print in a variety of editions.
Hubbell's other books include Book of Bees: And How to Keep Them (1989/1998); Broadsides from the Other Orders: A Book of Bugs (1993); Far-Flung Hubbell: Essays from the American Road (1995); a collection of travel essays focusing on American popular culture which were originally published in the New Yorker; Waiting for Aphrodite: Journeys Into the Time Before Bones (1999), a study of a tidal creature, the sea mouse or Aphrodite aculeata, which is a furry sea worm; Shrinking the Cat: Genetic Engineering Before We Knew about Genes (2001); From Here to There and Back Again (2004), essays on a variety of offbeat and engrossing subjects.
At the time of the Missouri Conservationist interview, Hubbell was spending part of her time in Missouri and the rest of her time in Washington, D.C., where her second husband, [Frank] Arne Sieverts, worked for the International Committee of the Red Cross. Hubbell has since sold the Missouri farm and purchased a house in a small Maine coastal town. Just as she never revealed where she lived in Missouri, Hubbell will not tell where her Maine home is located as she does not want her house to become a tourist attraction. Her second husband died in April 2004.
Hubbell has also written magazine articles, a number of which have been published in Smithsonian, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Magazine. One of her articles, "The Mystery of the Donut's Hole," in which she presents her research about camel crickets, can be found in the already mentioned Missouri Conservationist Magazine online. Hubbell has also written a new introduction to new edition of Rachel Carson's The Edge of the Sea (1998).
Constance Hunting was born in Providence, RI, and lived in Orono from 1968 until her death. She was a classical pianist, a poet and a promoter of other Maine writers, informally and through her Puckerbrush Review literary magazine (established 1978) and Puckerbrush Press publishing company (est. 1971). She also taught English literature and creative writing at the University of Maine (Orono) and was a member of the National Poetry Foundation board. She received her B.A. from Brown University in 1947, was at Duke University from 1950-53, and then Purdue University from 1953-68. Her husband, Robert, was chair of the English department at the Univ. of Maine for eight years before his death. There's more about her in a UMaine Today Nov-Dec. 2001 profile. Her obituary is available online.
Hunting edited two books about May Sarton, May Sarton, Woman and Poet (1982) and A Celebration for May Sarton: Essays and Speeches from the National Conference "May Sarton at 80" (1994). She also co-edited (with Lee Skarkey) two books of Maine writing, New Maine Writing (1977) and New Maine Writing: Number Two (1979); co-edited (with Virgil Bisset) In a Dark Time: An Anthology of Poetry of Nuclear Concern (1983); and in 1997 came out with The Experience of Art: Selected Essays and Interviews, which has articles on Virginia Chase Perkins and Philip Booth.
Hunting's own books and chapbooks of poetry are as follows: After the Stravinsky Concert and Other Poems (1969), Cimmerian and Other Poems (1972), Beyond the Summerhouse: A Narrative Poem (1976), Nightwalk and Other Poems (1980), Dream Cities (1982), Collected Poems, 1969-1982 (1983), A Day at the Shore: A Poem (1983), Between the Worlds: Poems 1983-1988 (1989), Hawkedon (1990), The Myth of Horizon (1991), At Rochebonne: A Poem (1994), The Shape of Memory (1998), Natural Things: Collected Poems 1969-1998 (1999), An Amazement (2002), and The Sky Flower (2005).
Dahlov Zorach Ipcar was born in Windsor, Vermont and summered in Maine as a child. She married Adolph Ipcar (1905 - Oct. 2003) when she was 18 and they moved to a Robinhood, Maine farm where she's lived since 1937. Ipcar has written and illustrated over 80 children's and young adult books, many repeating her primary images of animals and farm life. There's a biographical sketch of Ipcar on the Univ. of Southern Mississippi's de Grummond Collection site, and Pat Davidson Reef wrote a book on her entitled Dahlov Ipcar, Artist (1987). There's much more on the whole Zorach/Ipcar family on the World of Dahlov Ipcar webpage.
Dahlov Ipcar's books include:
Robert Ipcar -- photographer, former columnist and contributing editor for Film Crew Magazine, and science fiction author -- is a Maine native now living in Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY, with his wife and two daughters (he also has a grown son). His mother is Maine artist Dahlov Ipcar. Much more on the whole Ipcar family on the World of Dahlov Ipcar webpage.
In the 1970s he was photographer for a children's book series called What Can She Be (text by Gloria and Esther Goldreich), depicting working women in what were then considered unconventional careers. Titles include:
Ipcar has also published a science fiction trilogy, Children of Orion, which introduces the crimson planet N'ayu, where "centuries of feudal intrigue and occult magic simmer in a cauldron of shifting time."
He is working on a YA fantasy called Mist Maiden.
Judith Magyar was born in Hungary. In 1944 she, her mother, aunt, and grandmother were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Her grandmother was killed there and Judith, her mother and aunt were sent to another concentration camp, Hessich-Lichtenau; Isaacson's comments about this time appear in an April 2000 news article. In 1945 they were taken to Tekla where the US Army liberated them. Judith married Irving Isaacson, an American Army officer, and moved with him to Lewiston, Maine, Irving's hometown. In 1965 Judith graduated from Bates College with a major in mathematics. She taught math at Lewiston High School for three years and then studied at Bowdoin College where she earned a Master's degree in 1969. That same year she was hired as Dean of Women at Bates College. She was Dean of Students from 1975 to 1977 when she retired. She received an honorary doctorate from Bowdoin in 1994.
A 1976 invitation from Bowdoin College to speak about her survival in the camps was a turning point in her life. The day after her presentation, she began to write the manuscript that would be published as Seed of Sarah: Memoirs of a Survivor in 1990. Her book has been translated into several languages, was the inspiration for Mark Polishook's electronic chamber opera, and is the subject of a short video.
Her manuscripts for the book plus family papers can be viewed at Bates College Ladd Library. Other Isaacson papers can be found in the Maine Women Writers Collection, University of New England.
Jennifer Jacobson lives in Cumberland with her husband and two children. She received an M.Ed. from Harvard and has taught elementary school, acted as a curriculum coordinator, admissions director, and language arts specialist in several New England schools. Besides writing children's picture books and an educational non-fiction series, Jacobson also works as an online columnist and as an educational consultant, speaking at teachers' conferences. There's a short online interview with Jacobson on her website, and another interview with her, conducted in July 2005 by Cynthia Leitich. She's available for author visits in elementary schools.
Jacobson's children's books are A Net of Stars (1997/1998, ill. Greg Shed), Moon Sandwich Mom (1999, ill. Benrei Huang), Winnie Dancing on Her Own (2001, illus. Alissa Imre Geis), Truly Winnie (2003; ill. Alissa Imre Geis), and Andy Shane and the Very Bossy Dolores Starbuckle (2005; illus. Abby Carter). Her YA novel, Stained (2005), is a suspense story set in 1975 New Hampshire. She's also written an adult book on divination using runes, Stones From the Muse: Runes for the Creative Journey (1997, with Emily Herman; includes cloth bag filled with 10 stones).
Her series of books on elementary education, all written with Dottie Raymer, include: How is My First Grader Doing in School? What To Expect and How to Help (1998/1999); How is My Second Grader Doing in School? What To Expect and How to Help (1998/1999); How is My Third Grader Doing in School? What To Expect and How to Help (1999); How is My Fourth Grader Doing in School? What To Expect and How to Help (2000); How is My Fifth Grader Doing in School? What To Expect and How to Help (2000; excerpt from Fifth Grader); and How is My Sixth Grader Doing in School? What To Expect and How to Help (2000).
Jahn-Clough, a children's picture book author and illustrator, spent the first ten years of her life on a farm in Rhode Island (except for two years living Norway), spending summers on Monhegan Island, Maine. Her family moved to coastal Maine when she was 10; she grew up in Brunswick, later lived in the Boston area, and now lives in Portland, Maine. The director of Children's Writing Certificate Program at Emerson College in Boston, where she's taught for several years, Jahn-Clough also leads workshops for elementary school children on book-making and for adults on writing, illustrating and publishing children's books. Her B.A. is from Hampshire College (1984), her M.F.A. in creative writing from Emerson College (1993). Amazon provides an interview with Jahn-Clough (her e-mail address is also available). Her website also offers more biographical information.
Books include:
A Maine resident since 1976, Howard James was born in Iowa City, IA. He attended schools in Moline, IL, and Elkhart, IN, and was freshman and sophomore class president at Michigan State University, working during college full-time for TV and radio stations in Lansing and Grand Rapids, graduating in 1958 with degrees in communication (radio-tv) and journalism. In 1971, Michigan State recognized his work with an honorary doctorate.
James established the first full-time radio-tv news bureau at the Michigan state capitol. Soon he switched to newspapers, moving to the Marquette Mining Journal in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. In 1960 he became a reporter for the Chicago Tribune and in 1964 was named Midwest bureau chief of the Christian Science Monitor.
While he was working for the Christian Science Monitor, James was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting (1968) for his series of articles, "Crisis in the Courts," about incompetence and corruption in the American judiciary system, which was published the same year in book form (titled Crisis in the Courts). The following year he produced a second award-winning major Monitor series, reporting a nationwide study of programs for delinquent youth, published in 1970 as Children in Trouble: A National Scandal. His third book, The Little Victims: How America Treats its Children, was published in 1975. It's been described [in a 1976 MANAS Journal article, which provides a few excerpts from the book on page 10 of the PDF file] as a "record of continuing cruelty and indifference to the helpless young" children found in "institutions -- mental hospitals, jails, foster homes, welfare offices, and juvenile courts" in the U.S. All three books were published by the David McKay Company in NYC.
James moved to Maine in 1976 after marrying Judy Munro, publisher of the Berlin (NH) Reporter. He lives in Norway and until June 2005 owned the Rumford Falls Times and the Norway Advertiser-Democrat. He sold those papers to the Lewiston Sun Journal to devote more time to writing books.
Children's mystery writer Mary Childs Jane was born in Needham, Massachusetts, and graduated from Bridgewater State Teachers College (Mass.) in 1931. Before her marriage to William Jane in 1937, which whom she had two sons, she taught in Pippapon, Kentucky (1931-1932), Chester, Massachusetts (1932-1935), and Needham, Massachusetts (1935-1937). She was a long-time resident of Newcastle, Maine.
Jane's specialty was writing mysteries for middle school age children. She knew, from her teaching experience, that many reluctant readers can be lead to reading with mysteries. Her books include:
She also edited, with Jessie Wheeler Freeman, Interior of a Question Mark: Poems by Israel Newman (1957). Newman (1884-1954) was a Maine psychotherapist. Jane was for several years president of the Poetry Fellowship of Maine.
Born in Passaic, NJ, a graduate of St. Francis College in Biddeford (A.B., 1967) and John Carroll University (M.A. 1970), and resident of Hebron, Maine, Janeczko has taught for many years, including in Cleveland in the late 1960s and at Gray-New Gloucester High School from 1977-1990. He's also interviewed a number of writers, including children's writer M.E. Kerr (1975) and Maine's own Stephen King (1980). Janeczko himself was interviewed for The ALAN Review in Spring 1997; he talked about teaching poetry and developing anthologies. He runs poetry workshops internationally, speaks at schools and libraries, and continues to turn out poetry anthologies designed primarily for kids and teens. Janeczko also wrote Young Indiana Jones and the Pirates' Loot under the pen name J.N. Fox (paying homage to baseballer Jacob Nelson Fox).
Among Janeczko's anthologies are:
Teaching books include Favorite Poetry Lessons (1998), How To Write Poetry (1999), Seeing the Blue Between: Advice and Inspiration for Young Poets (2002), a compilation of more than 30 poets' letters to young writers, Good for a Laugh: A Guide to Writing Amusing, Clever, and Downright Funny Poems (2003), and How to Write Haiku and Other Short Poems (2004).
Janeczko's own books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction include:
A print profile on Janeczko appeared in the Jan-Feb. 1996 issue of Emergency Librarian. Details of Janeczko's speaking/teaching availability and contact info are online.
Jewett was born and lived all her life in South Berwick, where the Jewett House can be toured from June 1 through October 15. Most famous in Maine for The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896), she also wrote A Country Doctor (1884; a novel; summary and commentary available at this site), which she based on the life of her late father, and numerous other short stories, including her first published story, "Jenny Garrow's Lovers" (1868) and her second, "The Shipwrecked Buttons" (1869). She wrote her earliest pieces under the names Alice Eliott or A.C. Eliott. Many of her stories were first published in the Century, Harper's, or Atlantic Monthly. One of her influences was Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Jewett in turn influenced Willa Cather as a writer who could portray a local society sympathetically but without sentiment; in fact, Cather wrote the introduction to the 1954 edition of Country of the Pointed Firs.
Jewett's other works (most anthologies and story collections) include:
A complete list of Jewett's published and unpublished novels and short stories is available through The Sarah Orne Jewett Text Project (Coe College, Iowa), with links to about 100 of them, as well as a short Jewett biography.
Best Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett (1988) contains an excellent introductory article on Jewett's writings. For biographical information, read Sarah Orne Jewett: A Writer's Life, by Elizabeth Silverthorne (1993) or Master Smart Woman: Sarah Orne Jewett, a juvenile biography by Cynthia L. Keyworth.
The following stories are available full-text from the Jewett site at Hanover College (Indiana), originally from UVA's site: "Tom's Husband" (Atlantic Monthly 1882), "The Landscape Chamber" (Atlantic Monthly 1887), "In Dark New England Days" (Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine 1890), "The Dunnet Shepherdess" (Atlantic Monthly 1899), "The Foreigner" (Atlantic Monthly 1900), and "William's Wedding" (Atlantic Monthly 1910).
Jewett's 40 poems are collected in a 1999 volume titled The Complete Poems of Sarah Orne Jewett.
Lorna, as she is known by her family and close friends, was a native of Newburyport, Massachusetts. She was a 1932 University of New Hampshire graduate, had a master's degree from New York University, and taught for many years (1959-1974) at the former Westbrook Junior College (now the Portland campus for the University of New England.) The Maine Women Writers Collection at UNE houses an Eleanor Noyes Johnson Collection (1956-1991; 22 folders), with manuscripts, correspondence, and clippings. Johnson also taught for 10 years at Stephans College in Missouri and for 4 years at Oldsfield School in Washington.
Her books, all juvenile titles, are: Mountaintop Summer (1959), a story of a professor's family with lots of ideas and little money who make a deserted cabin in the Colorado mountains their summer home and a place for their father to recuperate; Buffington Castle (1962); Armitage Hall (1965), the story of a girl at boarding school, who spends much time with a favorite horse; King Alfred the Great (1966), a biography for young people on the life of the English King Alfred; Mrs. Perley's People (1970), an amusing story of an eccentric woman, Helen Mewer Perley, who operates an unusual animal farm in Maine; Pirate, The Lighthouse Cat (1986); Whistle Him In: The Story of a Maine Seal (1985); and The Wishing Year (1997), the story of a 10-year-old girl growing up in 1920s Newburyport, Mass. She was also an accomplished artist in oils and pastels.
Born in Norwalk, Conn., Johnson is a former reporter for over 20 years, working in Korea on a newspaper, in Vietnam for the AP, in Australia for radio and TV, and in the U.S. for daily newspapers. He moved to Maine in 1966, where he's the writing coach for the Brunswick "Times Record" and a short-story writer. His first collection was The Girl Who Would Be Russian and Other Stories (1986), and he's written a book of non-fiction, The Year of the Longley.
Jones lived in South China, Maine, and authored dozens of books about ethics and Quaker (Society of Friends) history. Jones was also a well-known Haverford College philosophy professor for forty years; Haverford maintains a Rufus Jones Collection on Mysticism that's 75 linear feet long. His autobiography is called A Small-Town Boy (1941). Other works include:
Jones also edited and wrote the Introduction and notes for the famous George Fox, An Autobiography (1930); he wrote the foreword to The Eleven Religions and Their Proverbial Lore (1945); he wrote the foreword for Splendor in the Night: Recording a Glimpse of Reality By a Pilgrim (1933); he edited Religious Foundations, written by A. Clutton-Brock et al. (1923); he wrote the introduction to The Record of a Quaker Conscience: Cyrus Pringle's Diary (1918); and he edited Selections from the Writings of Clement of Alexandria (1914).
Jones' works have been collected in Rufus Jones' Selected Stories of Native Maine Humor (1945; ed. Nixon Orwin Rush); Rufus Jones Speaks to Our Time: An Anthology (1951; ed. Harry Emerson Fosdick); and Thou Dost Open Up My Life: Selections from the Rufus Jones Collection (1963; ed. Mary Hoxie Jones).
Bill Jordan, a Maine native and resident of Portland, is noted for his expertise on Portland and Maine Civil War regimental history. A University of Maine alumnus with undergraduate and graduate degrees in history, he taught for many years at Westbrook College, Portland (now part of the University of New England). His graduate thesis became the first three chapters of A History of Cape Elizabeth, published in 1965 (facsimile reprint 1987). He is the creator of what is commonly called the Jordan Index, located in the Portland Room of the Portland Public Library. The index provides subject access to sixteen 18th- and 19th-century Portland area newspapers and was published in 1994 as Index to Portland Newspapers: 1785-1835.
Jordan's Portland-related publications include: Episodes from the Unitarian Universalist Experience in Maine (1974); The First Parish Church: Unitarian Universalist (1976) -- this short history can be found on the First Parish's web site; Portland's Famed Weathercock 1788-1981 (1981); Shaking the Family Tree: the Records of Portland's Eastern Cemetery (1981); Burial Records, 1717-1962, of the Eastern Cemetery, Portland, Maine (1987); Burial Records, 1811-1980, of the Western Cemetery in Portland, Maine (1987).
Civil War titles are: Maine in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865: Check List and Bibliography (1962); Maine at Gettysburg 1-3 July 1863 (1963); Maine in the Civil War: a Bibliographical Guide (1976); Red Diamond Regiment: the 17th Maine Infantry, 1862-1865 (1996); The Civil War Journals of John Mead Gould, 1861-1866, edited by Jordan (1997); Our Lady of Victories: a History of the Portland Soldiers and Sailors Monument (1998).
Other titles are: A Bibliography of Maine Bibliography (1952); Damages in Maine, co-authored with Thomas J. Quinn (1991; the book is also known as For the Plaintiff: Determining and Proving Damages; For the Defense: Limiting Damages in Maine and as Damages: For Plaintiff and Defense Attorneys in Maine); Insurance Litigation in Maine (1992); Personal Injury Litigation Practice in Maine (1992). The last two titles were co-authored with Christopher Dinan.
Jordan wrote introductions, forwards or commentaries for the following: The Significance of the Falmouth Affair, by Donald A. Yerxa (1975); Gleanings from the Sea: Showing the Pleasures, Pains and Penalties of Life Afloat with Contingencies Ashore, by Joseph W. Smith (1987 facsimile reprint of 1887 edition); The Jordan Memorial: Family Records of the Rev. Robert Jordan and His Descendants in America, compiled by Tristram Frost Jordan (1982 reprint of 1882 edition).
Joseph grew up in Rhode Island but lives now in lives Lovell, Maine, and is the director of publications and editor at Fox Maple Press, Inc., in Brownfield; he's also Webmaster for Biddle Publishing Co. and Audenreen Press. He published a Native American novel in 1997, Shadow of the Serpent: A Coyote Moon Story, which has met with overwhelmingly positive reviews, including Harriet Klausner's March 1998 review and several reviews by Amazon bookstore customers. Amazon also has an interview with Joseph, as does Embracing the Child (with photo), and Joseph's Home Page has excerpt and reviews of his work. He plans a sequel. Joseph also co-wrote, with Steve Chappell, The Alternative Building SourceBook, published in April 1998, and he edited "Joiners' Quarterly," a national timber framing magazine.
Maine's first natural history writer, Josselyn traveled from London to Scarborough, Maine, in 1638-1639 and 1663-1671 to visit his brother Henry Josselyn. While here, he studied the natural and physical rarities of the new world, and on returning to London wrote New-England's Rarities Discovered: In Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents and Plants of That Country (1672), said to be a quite accurate catalog of the flora and fauna of the area, and the first mention in print of the dandelion in America (according to Dr. Paul Sears, noted conservationist of Yale University), and An Account of Two Voyages to New-England Made During the Years 1638, 1663 (1674/1833/1865). For more about Josslyn, read Herb Adams' article, originally published in Sept. 1984, "John Josselyn, Gent. Adam with a Quill Pen in Eden."
