Edward Larocque Tinker (September 12, 1881, in

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– July 6, 1968, in New York City) was an American writer and philanthropist who developed a deep interest in the culture of Latin America and spent much of his life exploring it. Tinker was the grandson of Joseph Larocque. He studied at Columbia University Law School. He achieved Ph.D.'s in literature from the

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and the University of Madrid. He also wrote extensively on the culture and history of the city of

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. His mother was Louise (Larocque) Tinker, his father was Henry Champlin Tinker, and he married Frances McKee on January 16, 1916. His sister was Annie Rensselaer Tinker, a suffragist and philanthropist. Tinker created the Tinker Foundation in 1959 in memory of his second wife Frances McKee Tinker, his father Henry Champlin Tinker, and his grandfather Edward Greenfield Tinker. The Edward Larocque Tinker Library is located at the

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, the University of Texas at Austin.Edward Larocque Tinker Library.
Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved 2 September 2014.

Works

*''Lafcadio Hearn's American Days'', 1924 *''Closed Shutters: Old New Orleans - the Eighties'', 1931 *''Les écrits de langue française en Louisiane au XIXe siècle'', 1932 *''The horsemen of the Americas and the literature they inspired'', 1953 *''Gombo Comes to Philadelphia''1957 *''Life and Literature of the Pampas'', 1961 *''Centaurs of Many Lands'', 1964

External links

www.tinker.org

References

1881 births 1968 deaths 20th-century American philanthropists 20th-century American male writers University of Paris alumni Columbia Law School alumni American expatriates in France American expatriates in Spain {{philanthropist-stub