Louise Hall Tharp (1898–1992) was an American biographer. __NOTOC__

Childhood and family

She was born in Oneonta, New York, but when she was very young the family moved to Springfield, Massachusetts, where her father was vicar of the

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. She trained as an artist for two years at the

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, then went with her father on a tour of Europe. She married Carey Hunter Tharp of

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. The couple had two sons, Carey Edwin, Jr., and Marshall. they lived in

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Writing

Tharp published four books of historical fiction before she wrote her first biography, ''Champlain: Northwest Voyager''.

Books

Biographies

* ''Champlain: Northwest Voyager'', Little Brown, 1944. * ''Company of adventurers; the story of the Hudson's bay company'', Little, Brown and Co., 1946. * ''The Peabody Sisters of Salem'' (Little, Brown and Company: Boston, 1950). * ''Until Victory: Horace Mann and Mary Peabody'' (Boston: Little, Brown, 1953). Cramer, C. H. "An Excellent Biography". ''The Journal of Higher Education'', vol. 25, no. 2, 1954, pp. 107–107. . * ''Three Saints and a Sinner: Julia Ward Howe, Louisa, Annie and Sam'', Little Brown and Co. 1956Taft, Kendall B. ''American Literature'', vol. 30, no. 3, 1958, pp. 382–383. . * ''Adventurous alliance; the story of the Agassiz family of Boston'', Little, Brown, 1959. * ''Louis Agassiz, adventurous scientist'', Little, Brown, 1961. * ''The Baroness and the General'', Little, Brown and Company, Boston/Toronto, 1962.Brown, Marvin L. ''The William and Mary Quarterly''. vol. 20, no. 3, 1963, pp. 478–478. .Dabney, William M. ''The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography'', vol. 71, no. 4, 1963, pp. 494–495. . * ''Mrs. Jack; a biography of Isabella Stewart Gardner'', Boston, Little, Brown, 1965. * ''Saint-Gaudens and the gilded era'', Little, Brown, 1969.Crook, David H. “The American Historical Review.” The American Historical Review, vol. 75, no. 5, 1970, pp. 1532–1532. . * ''The Appletons of Beacon Hill'', Little, Brown and Company, 1973.Pochmann, Henry A. “American Literature.” American Literature, vol. 22, no. 3, 1950, pp. 367–368. .

Books for children

* ''Down to the sea; a young people's life of Nathaniel Bowditch, the great American navigator'', R.M. McBride and Company, 1942. * ''Tory Hole; a young people's account of the Tory attack on Middlesex Parish, CT during the Revolutionary War'', Darien Community Assoc., Inc. 1940/1976. * ''Sixpence for Luck; a young people's look at colonial life in New London, Ct'', Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1941 * ''Champlain: Northwest Voyager; the adventure story of a pioneer of The New World''. Peakirk Books, 1946

References

External links

* Th
Louise Hall Tharp papers, 1949–1953
are located in the Northeastern University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections Department, Boston, MA. {{DEFAULTSORT:Tharp, Louise Hall 1898 births 1992 deaths 20th-century American biographers American women biographers 20th-century American women