He Heard America Sing: The Story of Stephen Foster
| Year of Publication |
1940
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| Publication Type |
Novel
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| Number of Pages or Episodes |
236 p.
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| Language |
English
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| Contributors |
Author:
Claire Lee Purdy Tertiary Author: Dorothea Cooke Gramatky |
| Publisher |
Julian Messner
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| City |
New York
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| 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.”
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| Notes |
North Side is referred to as Allegheny City, as it was then known.
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| 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.
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| Time |
1820s-60s
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