Walter Havighurst

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Walter Havighurst

Walter Edwin Havighurst (born November 28, 1901 in Appleton , Wisconsin , United States , † February 3, 1994 in Richmond , Indiana ) was an American writer , historian and professor of English.

Life

Walter Havighurst was the son of Freeman Alfred Havighurst (1869–1961) and Winifred A. Havighurst nee. Weter (1874-1966). He grew up in the Fox River Valley region of Wisconsin and Illinois and worked as a seaman on freighters on the Great Lakes , and later on merchant navy ships in the Pacific . He was a pastor in a Methodist Church in New York.

In 1924 he received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Denver , from 1925 to 1926 he studied at King's College London . In 1928 he made a bachelor's degree in theology from Boston University and a master's degree from Columbia University in the same year .

In 1928 he became an assistant to Joseph M. Bachelor at Miami University in Oxford , Ohio . He taught English and has served on the faculty at Connecticut College , the University of Colorado and the University of British Columbia .

At Miami University he met the poet, writer and English teacher at the Western College for Women Marion M. Boyd (1894–1974), whom he married in 1930. She and Joseph M. Bachelor encouraged him to develop his skills as a historian and writer. In 1968 he was appointed "Regents Professor", in 1969 he was retired . In 1970, Miami University Libraries established the Walter Havighurst Special Collection , which contains over 85,000 volumes and manuscripts. In 2000 the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies was opened at Miami University as a result of a foundation. Miami University awards a "Walter Havighurst Literary Prize".

Walter Havighurst had three brothers and a sister. Robert James Havighurst (1900-1991) was an educational scientist, sociologist and university professor; Alfred Freeman Havighurst (1904–1991) was a historian.

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Walter Havighurst was the author, co-author or editor of about 40 books. His subjects were above all descriptions of the landscape and life in the region between the Great Lakes and the Ohio River , which he called the "heartland of the nation".

For his first book Pier 17. he was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize . In The Quiet Shore he describes the life of three generations of a family on Lake Erie between the end of the Civil War and the Great Depression of the 1930s. His 1964 book Voices on the River. The Story of the Mississippi Waterways has been judged by one critic to be a masterful picture of the force, inconsistency and tremendous value of the Mississippi and its tributaries . The book The Miami years, 1809-1969 is one of the best college stories; it is used as the text base in Miami University history courses.

  • Pier 17. Macmillan, New York 1935, OCLC 614871326 .
  • The Quiet Shore. Macmillan, New York 1937, OCLC 818021864 .
  • The Upper Mississippi. A wilderness saga. Farrar and Rinehart, New York 1937, OCLC 632735904 .
  • The winds of Spring. Macmillan, New York 1941, OCLC 833501064 .
  • with Robert Forbes Almy, Joseph M. Bachelor: Approach to America. Odyssey Press, New York 1942, OCLC 963457596 .
  • No homeward course. Doubleday and Doran, Garden City 1942, OCLC 24705789 .
  • The Long Ships Passing. The Story of the Great Lakes. Macmillan, New York 1943, OCLC 752645336 . Reprint: 1975, ISBN 0-02-549100-8 .
    • German: In the land of leather stockings. The history of the great lakes of North America. Brockhaus, Wiesbaden 1949, DNB 451876997 .
  • with Marion Havighurst: High prairie. Rinehart, New York / Toronto 1944, OCLC 729774406 .
  • (Ed.): Masters of the modern short story. Harcourt and Brace, New York 1945. New edition: 1955, OCLC 895141995 .
  • Land of promise. The story of the Northwest territory. Macmillan, New York 1946, OCLC 1031592962 .
  • Signature of time. Macmillan, New York 1949, OCLC 851161148 .
  • with Marion M. Boyd Havighurst, Richard Floethe: Song of the pines a story of the Norwegian lumbering in the Wisconsin. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York 1949, OCLC 367508724 .
  • Life in America. The Midwest. Fideler, Grand Rapids 1951, OCLC 490947186 .
  • George Rogers Clark . Soldier in the West. McGraw-Hill, New York 1952, OCLC 8745362 .
  • with Marion Havighurst: Climb a Lofty Ladder. Winston, Philadelphia / Toronto 1952, OCLC 49907949 .
  • Life in America. The Great Plains. Fideler, Grand Rapids 1955, OCLC 246782872 .
  • Annie Oakley of the Wild West. Hale, London 1955. New edition: University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln 1992, ISBN 0-8032-7253-7 .
  • Wilderness for sale. the story of the first western land rush. Hastings, New York 1956, OCLC 492236446 .
  • Vein of Iron. The Pickands Mather Story. World Publication, Cleveland 1958, OCLC 570926372 .
  • Land of the long horizons. Coward-McCann, New York 1960, OCLC 576853428 .
  • Life in America. The Northeast. Fideler, Grand Rapids 1960, OCLC 1005937805 .
  • The first book of the Oregon Trail. Watts, New York 1960, OCLC 679833428 .
  • The heartland. Ohio, Indiana, Illinois. Harper and Row, New York / London 1962, OCLC 59832536 .
  • Voices on the River. The Story of the Mississippi Waterways. Macmillan, New York 1964, OCLC 500525313 .
  • Proud prisoner. A portrait of Henry Hamilton . Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York 1964, OCLC 966050533 .
  • The Great Lakes reader. Macmillan, New York 1966, OCLC 1031797964 .
  • The Three Flags at the Straits. Forts of Mackinac. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs 1966, OCLC 317219935 .
  • Alexander Spotswood. Portrait of a Governor. Colonial, Williamsburg 1967, OCLC 478912 .
  • The Miami years, 1809-1969. Putnam, New York 1969, OCLC 652315096 .
  • River to the West. Three centuries of the Ohio. Putnam's Sons, New York 1970, OCLC 940303605 .
  • Men of Old Miami, 1809-1873. A Book of Portraits. Putnam, New York 1974, OCLC 918280649 .
  • From six at first. A history of Phi Delta Theta, 1848–1973. Phi Delta Theta Fraternity, Menasha 1975, OCLC 499461190 .
  • Ohio. A bicentennial history. Norton, New York 1976, ISBN 0-393-05613-9 .
  • The Dolibois Years, 1938-1981. To these things you must return. Miami University Alumni Association, Oxford 1982, OCLC 1033586332 .

Awards

  • 1967: "Award of Merit" from the American Association for State and Local History
  • 1971: American History Award from the Society of Midland Authors for River to the West. Three centuries of the Ohio
  • 1984: "Legion of Honor" of the connection Phi Delta Theta

literature

  • David D. Anderson: Walter (Edwin) Havighurst. In: Philip A. Greasley: Dictionary of Midwestern-Literature. Volume 1: The Authors. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 2001, ISBN 978-0-253-10841-8 , pp. 249-250 (limited preview in Google Book Search: p. 249 , p. 250 ).

Web links

Commons : Walter Havighurst Special Collections  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. In some sources you can find the statement that this book is the basis for the musical Annie Get Your Gun . But it appeared several years after the musical's premiere.

Individual evidence

  1. Walter Havighurst Special Collection and Archives at ohioarchivists.org, accessed on August 27, 2018
  2. About the Center on miamioh.edu, accessed August 27, 2018
  3. Awards, Scholarships, and Prizes on bulletin.miamioh.edu, accessed August 27, 2018
  4. ^ Society of Midland Authors website , accessed August 27, 2018
  5. Awards at museum.phideltatheta.org (Legion of Honor → See all of the Winners), accessed on August 27, 2018