Dorothy Shawhan

Fannye Cook

Mississippi's Pioneering Conservationist
Herausgeber: Barnwell, Marion Garrard; Hartfield, Libby

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Produktbeschreibung

Conservationist Fannye Cook (1889-1964) was the most widely known scientist in Mississippi and was nationally known as the go-to person for biological information or wildlife specimens from the state. This biography celebrates the environmentalist instrumental in the creation of the Mississippi Game and Fish Commission and the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science.

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• Verlag: University Press of Mississippi
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781496814128
• ISBN-10: 1496814126
• Artikelnr.: 48133881

Autorenporträt

Dorothy Shawhan (1942-2014) was an outstanding educator and writer. She taught at Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi, where she chaired the Division of Languages and Literature from 1991 to 2006. She published widely in literary and scholarly journals and authored four books, including the widely popular novel Lizzie, based on the life of a Mississippi governor's daughter, and coauthored a biography, Lucy Somerville Howorth: New Deal Lawyer, Politician, and Feminist from the South. Marion Barnwell is professor emerita of English at Delta State University. She is editor of A Place Called Mississippi: Collected Narratives and coauthor of Touring Literary Mississippi, both published by University Press of Mississippi. Her fiction has been published in the edited collections Mad Dogs and Moonshine; Christmas Stories from Mississippi; and On the Way Home; and her essays have appeared in magazines such as Delta Magazine and Portico. She is a board member and past president of Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters and Jackson Friends of the Library. Libby Hartfield is director emerita of the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science.