Louise Hall Tharp
Louise Hall Tharp was an American biographer.
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 North Congregational Church .[1] She trained as an artist for two years at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, then went with her father on a tour of Europe.[1] She married Carey Hunter Tharp of Huntsville, Texas.[1] The couple had two sons, Carey Edwin, Jr., and Marshall. they lived inDarien, Connecticut.[2]
Writing
Tharp published four books of historical fiction before she wrote her first biography, [[Champlain: Northwest Voyager.[2][3]
Books
Biographies
- The Peabody Sisters of Salem (Little, Brown and Company: Boston 1950).
- Until Victory: Horace Mann and Mary Peabody (Boston: Little, Brown, 1953).
- The Baroness and the General, Little, Brown and Company, Boston/Toronto, 1962.
References
- ^ a b c "Louise Hall Tharp (profile)". New York Herald Tribune. 15 January 1950. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
- ^ a b Trent, Nan (1 December 1961). "Louise Hall Tharp Looks Ahead: Attentive To Detail (profile)". Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
- ^ Fisher, Barbara E. Scott (5 April 1951). "Sympathetic Research Reveals Biography Patterns for Louise Hall Tharp: Author of 'Peabody Sisters of Salem' Describes Weaving Material Into Book". Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
External links
- The Louise Hall Tharp papers, 1949–1953 are located in the Northeastern University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections Department, Boston, MA.