Carleton Mabee (December 24, 1914 – December 18, 2014) was an American writer who won the 1944

Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography The Pulitzer Prize for Biography is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. It has been presented since 1917 for a distinguished biography, autobiography or memoir by an American author o ...

for ''The American Leonardo: The Life of Samuel F B. Morse''.

Life

Mabee was born in

Shanghai Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flow ...

. He graduated from

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, and

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

. In 1945, he married Norma Dicking. He was ''professor emeritus'' at

State University of New York at New Paltz The State University of New York at New Paltz (SUNY New Paltz or New Paltz) is a public university in New Paltz, New York. It traces its origins to the New Paltz Classical School, a secondary institution founded in 1828 and reorganized as an a ...

. Mabee lived in

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Works

*''The American Leonardo: A Life of Samuel F. B. Morse'', 1943; Literary Licensing, LLC, 2013, *''The Seaway Story'', The Macmillan Company, 1961. *''Black Education in New York State: From Colonial to Modern Times'', Syracuse University Press, 1979, * * *''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

References

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