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Wisconsin Sons and Daughters

A list of Wisconsin authors and their books

Alfred Lunt | August Derleth | Carrie Catt | Charles and John Ringling | Eric Heiden | Frank Lloyd Wright | George F. Kennan | Georgia O'Keeffe | Glenway Westcott | Greta Van SusterenHarry Houdini | Jean Dixon | Glenway Westcott | Joseph McCarthy | Laura Ingalls Wilder | Les Paul | Liberace | Orson Welles | Robert La FolletteRuss Feingold | Spencer Tracy | Thornton Wilder | William Rehnquist | Zona Gale | Collections

 

Alfred Lunt actor, Milwaukee

Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne: A Bibliography by Phillip M. Runkel. 791.430280922016 R874a

Design for Living: Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanneby Margot Peters. 792.028092241 P442d

The Fabulous Lunts: A Biography of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne by Jared Brown. 792.0280922L973b

The Lunts: An Illustrated Study of Their Work, with a List of Their Appearances on Stage and Screen. 792L97f

Stagestruck; the Romance of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. 792L97z

 

August Derleth author, Sauk City

August Derleth, a Bibliography by Alison M. Wilson.  818.5209016D446w

The Derleth Saga by Evelyn M. Schroth.  818.5209D446s  

Remembering Derleth:  All About Augie, 1909-1971 by Bill Dyke.  813.54D446zd

Walden West by August Derleth.  818.5209 D446ww

 

Carrie Catt woman suffragist, Ripon

 Carrie Chapman Catt, a Biography by Mary Gray Peck901 C29p

 

Charles and John Ringling circus entrepreneurs, Baraboo

Big Top Boss: John Ringling North and the Circus by David Lewis Hammarstrom. 338.7617913092N811h

The Circus from Rome to Ringling by Earl Chapin May. 791M45c2

The Circus Fire: A True Story by Stewart O'Nan. 974.63 On1c

Circus! From Rome to Ringling by Marion Murray. 791.309M965c

The Circus Kings by Henry Ringling North. 791.3092R47n

Ringling the Florida Years, 1911-1936 by David C. Weeks. 338.7617913092R474w

Ringlingville USA: The Stupendous Story of Seven Siblings and Their Stunning Circus Success by Jerry Apps. 791.30973 Ap65r

Those Amazing Ringlings and Their Circus by Gene Plowden. 791.3P72t

 

Eric Heiden speed skater, Madison
Eric Heiden:  America's Olympic Golden Boy by Suzanne Munshower.  796.910924H362m

 

Frank Lloyd Wright architect, Richland Center

At Nature's Edge: Frank Lloyd Wright's Artist Studio by Henry Whiting II. 727.9 W589n

Death in a Prairie House: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Murders by William R. Drennan. 364.15230977576 W931d

The Fellowship: The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship by Roger Friedland & Harold Zellman. 720.92 W931fri

Four Great Makers of Modern Architecture by John Brown 7272

The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion by William Allin Storrer. 720.92 W931s 2006

Frank Lloyd Wright: The Houses photographs by Alan Weintrauband text by Alan Hess. 728.37092 W931w

Frank Lloyd Wright: A Penguin Life by Ada Louise Huxtable. 720.92 W931hu

 

George F. Kennan diplomat, Milwaukee
American Visions of Europe: Franklin D. Roosevelt, George F. Kennan, and Dean G. Acheson by John Lamberton Harper.  327. 7304 H232a

At a Century's Ending:  Reflections, 1982-1995 by George F. Kennan.  327. 73047 K361a 

George F. Kennan and the Making of American Foreign Policy, 1947-1950 by Wilson D. Miscamble.  327.73M681g

George Kennan and the Dilemmas of US Foreign Policy by David Mayers.  327.20924K361m

Operation Rollback: America's Secret War Behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Grose.  327.127301717 G912o

 

Georgia O’Keeffe artist, Sun Prairie
The Art & Life of Georgia O'Keeffe by Jan Garden Castro. 759.13 Ok2c

Becoming O'Keeffe: The Early Years by Sarah Whitaker Peters. 759.13 Ok2p2

Carr, O'Keeffe, Kahlo: Places of Their Own by Sharyn Rohlfsen Udall. 704. 0420904 Ud1c

Full Bloom: The Art and Life of Georgia O'Keeffe by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp. 759.13 Ok2dr

From the Faraway Nearby: Georgia O'Keeffe as Icon edited by Christopher Merrill & Ellen Bradbury. 759.13Ok2m

Georgia O'Keeffe by Lisa Mintz Messinger. 759.13 Ok2me

Georgia O'Keeffe:  A Life by Roxana Robinson. 759.13 Ok2r

Miss O'Keeffe by Christine Taylor Patten and Alvaro Cardona-Hine. 759.13Ok2pa

O'Keeffe: The Life of an American Legend by Jeffrey Hogrefe. 759.13Ok2h

O'Keeffe and Stieglitz: An American Romance by Benita Eisler. 759.13Ei87o

One Hundred Flowers by Georgia O'Keeffe. 759.13Ok2on

Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe by Laurie Lisle. 759.13Ok2l

Three Artists (Three Women): Modernism and the Art of Hesse, Krasner, and O'Keeffe by Anne Middleton Wagner. 709.2273 W125t

A Woman on Paper: Georgia O'Keeffe by Anita Pollitzer. 759.13 Ok2p

 

Glenway Westcott novelist, Kewaskum

Glenway Wescott by William H. Rueckert. 818W51r

Glenway Wescott: The Paradox of Voice by Ira Johnson. 813W51j

Glenway Wescott Personally: A Biography by Jerry Rosco. 813.52 W511zr

 

Greta Van Susteren, journalist, Appleton
My Turn at the Bully Pulpit:  Straight Talk About the Things That Drive Me Nuts by Greta Van Susteren and Elaine Lafferty.  349.73 V366m

 

Harry Houdini, magician, Appleton
Death and the Magician: The Mystery of Houdini by Raymund Fitzsimons. 793.80924H813f

Houdini!:  The Career of Ehrich Weiss:  American Self-Liberator, Europe's Eclipsing Sensation, World's Handcuff King & Prison Breaker: Nothing on Earth Can Hold Houdini a Prisoner! by Kenneth Silverman. 794.8092 H813s

Houdini: A Mind in Chains: A Psychoanalytic Portrait by Bernard C. Meyer. 793.8092H81m

Houdini: His Legend and His Magic by Doug Henning, with Charles Reynolds. 793.80924H813h

Houdini, the Man Who Walked Through Walls by William Lindsay Gresham. 793.8H81g

Houdini; the Untold Story by Milbourne Christopher. 793.8H81c

Houdini on Magic, edited by Walter B. Gibson & Morris N. Young. 793.8 H813h

Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man: The White Male Body and the Challenge of Modernity in America by John F. Kasson. 305.31 K154h

Houdini's Fabulous Magic by Walter B. Gibson and Morris N. Young. 793.8G35ho

Houdini's Magic: Prepared from Houdini's Private Notebooks and Memoranda with the Assistance of Beatrice Houdini, widow of Houdini, and Bernard M. L. Ernst, president of the parent assembly of the Society of American Magicians by Walter B. Gibson. 793.8G35hm

The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini by Ruth Brandon. 793. 8092 H813b

The Original Houdini Scrapbook compiled by Walter B. Gibson. 793.8H81gi

The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero by William Kalush and Larry Sloman. 793.8092 H813k

 

Jeane Dixon, astrologer, Medford
A Gift of Prophecy: The Phenomenal Jeane Dixon by Ruth Montgomery. 133.3M76g

Jeane Dixon: My Life and Prophecies; Her Own Story as told to Rene Noorbergen. 133.3092D64j

Jeane Dixon: The Witnesses by Denis Brian. 133.3092D64b

 

Joe McCarthy Senator, Appleton/Little Chute 
Joseph McCarthy:  The Misuse of Political Power by Daniel Cohen.  973. 921092 M127c

Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator by Arthur Herman.  973. 921092 M127h

The Life and Times of Joe McCarthy:  A Biography by Thomas C. Reeves.  973.9180924M127r

McCarthy and His Enemies; The Record and Its Meaning by Wm. F. Buckley, Jr. & L. Brent Bozell.  973.92B85    

The Politics of Fear: Joseph R. McCarthy and the Senate by Robert Griffith.  901 M128g

Seeds of Repression; Harry S. Truman and the Origins of McCarthyism by Athan Theoharis.  973.918T34s

Senator Joseph McCarthy and the American Labor Movement by David M. Oshinsky.  322.2Os4s

Senator Joe McCarthy by Richard H. Rovere.  901M128r

Shooting Star:  The Brief Arc of Joe McCarthy by Tom Wicker.  973. 921092 M127w 

 

 

Laura Ingalls Wilder author, Pepin
Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Woman Behind the Legend by John E. Miller. 813.52 W645zm

Laura: The Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Donald Zochert. 813W64z

Prairie Girl: The life of Laura Ingalls Wilder by William Anderson. 813.52 W645zag

Searching for Laura Ingalls: A Reader's Journey by Kathryn Lasky and Meribah Knight. 813.52W645zl

 

Les Paul musician, Waukesha
Les Paul: An American Original by Mary Alice Shaughnessy. 781.64092P281s

The Les Paul Legacy by Robb Lawrence. 787.87166092

 

Liberace entertainer, West Allis
Behind the Candelabra: My Life with Liberace by Scott Thorson with Alex Thorleifson. 786. 10924 L615th

Liberace: An American Boy by Darden Asbury Pyron. 786.2092 L998p

Liberace; An Autobiography by Liberace. 786.2092L61l

Liberace: The True Story by Bob Thomas. 786. 10924 L615t

The Things I Love by Liberace. 786.2092L61t

The Wonderful Private World of Liberace by Liberace. 786.10924L615l

 

Orson Welles actor, Kenosha
Despite the System: Orson Welles Versus the Hollywood Studios by Clinton Heylin. 791.430233092 W459d

Orson Welles. The Road to Xanadu by Simon Callow. 791.430233092 W459c

Orson Welles. Hello Americans by Simon Callow. 791.430233092 W459c v2

Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles by David Thomson. 791.430233092 W459t

 

Robert La Follette politician, Primrose
Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer by Nancy C. Unger. 977. 504092 L133u

The La Follettes and the Wisconsin Idea  by Edward Newell Doan. 901L135d

The La Follettes of  Wisconsin: Love and Politics in Progressive America by Bernard A. Weisberger. 973. 90922 W434l.

Robert M. La Follette and the Insurgent Spirit by David P. Thelen. 901L135th.

Robert M. La Follette, June 14, 1855--June 18, 1925  by Belle Case La Follette. 973.910924L132I

Robert M. LaFollette, Progressive  by James I. Clark. 901L135c

 

Russ Feingold Senator, Janesville
Feingold: A New Democratic Party by Sanford D. Horwitt. 328. 73092 F327h

 

Spencer Tracy actor, Milwaukee
An Affair to Remember: The Remarkable Love Story of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy by Christopher Andersen. 791.43028092273 An22a

The Complete Films of Spencer Tracy by Donald Deschner. 791. 43028092 T674d

The Leading Men of MGM by Jane Ellen Wayne. 791.43028092273 W367l

Spencer Tracy; A Biography by Larry Swindell. 791.4309T67s

Spencer Tracy, Tragic Idol by Bill Davidson. 791.430280924T674d

Tracy and Hepburn; An Intimate Memoir by Garson Kanin 791.4309T67k

 

Thornton Wilder author, Madison
Conversations with Thornton Wilder edited by Jackson R. Bryer. 818.5209 W645wc

The Enthusiast: A Life of Thornton Wilder by Gilbert A. Harrison. 818.5209W645h

Thornton Wilder, An Intimate Portrait by Richard H. Goldstone. 818W646go

Thornton Wilder and His Public by Amos Niven Wilder. 818.5209W645w

Thornton Wilder, His World by Linda Simon. 813.52W645zs

Thornton Wilder translated by John Conway. 818W646p

 

William Rehnquist Supreme Court Justice, Milwaukee
A Court Divided:  The Rehnquist Court and the Future of  Constitutional Law by Mark Tushnet.  347.7326 T871c 

Mr. Justice Rehnquist, Judicial Activist by Donald E. Boles.  347.732634R269b v1 

Original Intent : Chief Justice Rehnquist and the Course of American Church-State Relations by Derek Davis.  342.730852D291o 

The Rehnquist Choice:  The Untold Story of the Nixon Appointment that Redefined the Supreme Court by John W. Dean.  347. 732634 D345r 

The Rehnquist Court and the Constitution by Tinsley E. Yarbrough.  347.7326 Y2r 

The Rehnquist Court:  Judicial Activism on the Right edited by Herman Schwartz.  347.732635 R269r 

Turning Right:  The Making of the Rehnquist Supreme Court by David G. Savage.  347.7326Sa92t

 

Zona Gale writer, Portage
Zona Gale by Harold Peter Simonson. 818FG13s

Still Small Voice: The Biography of Zona Gale by August Derleth 901G131d

 

Collections
Badger Saints and Sinners, by Fred L. Holmes 900H73

Famous Wisconsin Artists and Architects by Hannah Heidi Levy. 977. 50099 L579f

Famous Wisconsin Inventors & Entrepreneurs by Marv Balousek. 977. 50099 B215f

More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Wisconsin Women by Greta Anderson. 920. 082775 An23m

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