George Washington Carver: An American Biography

Rackham Holt

ISBN 10: 0385030452 / ISBN 13: 9780385030458

Published by Doubleday Books December 1963, 1963

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: George Washington Carver: An American Biography
• Publisher: Doubleday Books December 1963
• Publication Date: 1963
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385030452
• ISBN 13: 9780385030458
• Binding: Library Binding
• Condition: Ex-Library
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography

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Synopsis

An American Biography

About the Author

Rackham Holt, the woman who wrote this extraordinary book, was born Margaret Van Vechten Saunders in Denver, Colorado, in 1899. She was married to New York publisher Guy Holt, and given the nickname Rackham by a family friend, who thought she looked like one of artist Arthur Rackham’s distinctive drawings. She decided to use Rack-ham Holt as her pen name. Guy Holt died in 1934, at the age of 42, leaving Margaret to raise their ten-year-old daughter alone. In addition to her work in biography, Holt was an editor, book reviewer, librarian, ghost writer, and journalist. In the late 1940’s she was one of the prominent literary figures who spoke in defense of best-selling writer Howard Fast, a man put in prison for three months after refusing to give information to the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Rackham spent three years on Carver’s biography, including five months at Tuskegee In-stitute. After this book was published, she donated half its royalties to the Carver Institute at Tuskegee.