Title | He Heard America Sing: The Story of Stephen Foster |
Year of Publication | 1940 |
Publication Type | Novel |
Number of Pages or Episodes | 236 p. |
Language | English |
Authors | Purdy, Claire Lee |
Tertiary Authors | Gramatky, Dorothea Cooke |
Publisher | Julian Messner |
City | New York |
Keywords | "Old Dog Tray"; Allegheny Portage Railroad; Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919); Black Americans; Christy Minstrels; composers; Eliza T. Foster (1788-1855); flatboats; Knights of the S.T.; Lieve (Olivia Pise); minstrels; Native Americans; Pennsylvania Railroad; slavery; steamboats; Stephen Foster (1826-64); William Foster (1779-1855) |
Abstract | A novelized biography of Stephen Foster (1826-1864), the great American ballad writer from Pittsburgh. The book includes songs like “Oh, Susannah” and “Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair.” |
Notes | North Side is referred to as Allegheny City, as it was then known. |
Author Biography | Claire Lee Purdy (1906-56) was born in Chihuahua, Mexico and earned her BA in 1929 at the University of Colorado, Boulder. A teacher, she wrote for children eight biographical novels about musicians like Foster, Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, and Gilbert and Sullivan. She died in Los Angeles. Dorothea Cooke Gramatky (1908-2001), born in Los Angeles, studied at Chouinard Art Institute. She was an illustrator and watercolor painter. |
Time | 1820s-60s |