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Biographies  The section of our collection that focuses on life stories . . . by or about Winter Park residents

A Biography is defined as an account of a person's life. . . written, composed, or produced by another. Whereas, an autobiography is an account of a person's life . . . written or otherwise recorded by that person. They are extremely popular genres of books.

The Biography section of the Winter Park History & Archives Collection features biographies and autobiographies by or about people who live in Winter Park. They can be an important tool when looking back at earlier times and past residents of our city. Many researchers rely on these books for fact-finding.
 

* Listed below are a few of the Biographies / Autobiographies that we have in our collection.


   
Title: Personal Exposures

Author: Rex Beach
Publisher: Harper & Brothers Publishers (New York)
Copyright: 1940
Title: Wilhelmina "Billie" Greene

Author: Sondra L. Ickes
Date: 1996

*This documented essay is the final result of research that was done for the Rhea Marsh and Dorothy Lockhart Smith Winter Park History Research Grant. Ms. Ickes received this grant in 1995. She presented her findings in 1996.

Title: An African-American Growing Up on the West Side of Winter Park, Florida 1925-1942

Author: Clyde W. Hall
Publisher: Clyde W. Hall (USA)
Copyright: 2005
Title: Grace Livingston Hill: Her Story and Her Writings

Author: Jean Kerr
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap, Inc. (New York)
Copyright: 1948

 

Title: Hamilton Holt: Journalist, Internationalist, Educator

Author: Warren F. Kuehl
Publisher: University of Florida Press (Gainesville)
Copyright: 1960
 

Title: George Kraft: The Farm, The Boy and The Man

Author: Kenneth Houston Kraft
 

 

Title: One Life: The Autobiography of Florence Lamborn
Johnson


Author: Florence Lamborn Johnson
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing Co. (Pittsburgh)
Copyright: 1997
Title: Jeannette Genius McKean: Quiet Crusader For Art

Author: Charles A. Twardy, Jr.
Publisher: Charles Hosmer Morse Foundation (Winter Park)
Copyright: 1994
Title: Woman Surgeon: The Life and Work of Rosalie Slaughter Morton

Author: Rosalie Slaughter Morton
Publisher: Frederick A. Stokes Co. (New York)
Copyright: 1937
Title: A Bohemian Girl in America

Author: Emily M. K. Polasek
Edited by: Edward Hayes
Publisher: Rollins Press (Winter Park)
Copyright: 1982




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