Walter Havighurst
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[edit] History
Walter E. Havighurst (born 28 November 1901 - died 1994) writer and professor of English at the Miami University. He was the son of Lawrence College professors Freeman Alfred Havighurst and Winifred Weter. He attended Ohio Wesleyan University and earned a Bachelor of Arts, University of Denver (1924); Bachelor of Sacred Theology Boston University (1928); Masters Columbia University (1928) and was awarded honorary degrees from Lawrence College, Ohio Wesleyan University, Marietta College, and the Miami University. Married Marion Boyd in 1930 and resided in Oxford, Ohio until the last few years of life when he moved to Richmond, Indiana to live with relatives.
He was from a distinguished academic family including his brother, Robert J. Havighurst, a noted professor at the University of Chicago
Author of over thirty books, including Pier 17, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and Annie Oakley of the Wild West which was the basis for the Broadway musical Annie Get Your Gun.
A major bequest from Havighurst created the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies at Miami University upon his death.
[edit] Bibliography of Books Written
Pier 17 (1935)
The Quiet Shore (1937)
The Upper Mississippi (1937) (Volume 2 of the Rivers of America Series)
The Winds of Spring (1940)
No Homeward Course (1940)
The Long Ships Passing : The Story of the Great Lakes (1942)
High Prairie (1944) with Marion Boyd
Land of Promise: The Story of the Northwest Territory (1946)
Signature of Time (1949)
Song of the Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin (1949) with Marion Boyd
George Rogers Clark Soldier in the West (1952)
Climb a Lofty Ladder (1952) with Marion Boyd
Annie Oakley of the Wild West (1954)
Wilderness for Sale: The Story of the First Western Land Rush (1956)
Buffalo Bill's Great Wild West Show (1957)
Vein of Iron: The Picklands Mather Story (1958)
The Miami Years: 1809-1959 (1958)
The First Book of Pioneers: Northwest Territory (1959)
Land of Long Horizons (1960)
The First Book of the Oregon Trail (1960)
The Heartland (1962)
The First Book of The California Gold Rush (1962)
Voices on the River: The Story of the Mississippi Waterways (1964)
Proud Prisoner: Sir Henry Hamilton (1964)
The Flags at the Straits: Forts of Mackinac (1966) (Forts of America Series)
The Great Lakes Reader (1966) (Editor)
Alexander Spotswood: Portrait of a Governor (1967)
River to the West: Three Centuries on the Ohio (1970)
Men of Old Miami: A Book of Portraits (1974)
From Six at First: A History of Phi Delta Theta 1848-1973
Ohio: A Bicentennial Portrait (1976)
The Dolibois Years (1982)
[edit] References and Sources
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