Carleton Mabee Explained

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

• The American Leonardo: A Life of Samuel F. B. Morse, 1943; Literary Licensing, LLC, 2013, ^[4]
• The Seaway Story, The Macmillan Company, 1961.
• Black Education in New York State: From Colonial to Modern Times, Syracuse University Press, 1979,
• Book: Sojourner Truth: Slave, Prophet, Legend. 1 January 1995. NYU Press. 978-0-8147-5525-9. ^[5]
• Book: Carleton Mabee. Gardiner and Lake Minnewaska. 2003. Arcadia Publishing. 978-0-7385-1185-6.
• Black Freedom: The Nonviolent Abolitionists from 1830 Through the Civil War, The Macmillan Company, 1970,
• “Saving the Shawangunks: The Struggle to Protect one of Earth’s Great Places” Black Dome Press 2017
• "Bridging the Hudson": The Poughkeepsie Railroad Bridge and it's connecting Rail Lines. Purple Mountain Press, 2001

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Pulitzer Prizes - Awards. 21 December 2014.
2. Book: Elizabeth A. Brennan. Elizabeth C. Clarage. Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners. 1999. Greenwood Publishing Group. 978-1-57356-111-2. 22–.
3. News: Quinn. Eric. At 98, historian Carleton Mabee readies new book on Shawangunk land preservation controversies. 3 September 2014. New Palz Times. Apr 7, 2013.
4. https://books.google.com/books?id=YF8sAAAAYAAJ https://books.google.com
5. News: Sojourner Truth Slave, Prophet, Legend. 3 September 2014. Project MUSE. 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..