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Constance Mayfield Rourke

Born: 11/14/1885   Cleveland
Died: 03/23/1941
Parents: Henry Button Rourke, Constance E. Rourke
Address(es):
Burial:
Woodlawn Cemetery
Grand Rapids , MI

Writings

Image Title Genre Audience Publisher Date
The Roots of American Culture and Other Essays
- Van Wyck Brooks edited incomplete manuscript 		Non Fiction Adult New York : Harcourt 1942
Charles Sheeler: Artist in the American Tradition Non Fiction , Biography Adult New York : Harcourt 1938
Audubon
- Newbery Honor Book 1937 		Non Fiction , Biography Adult , Children , Teen New York : Harcourt 1936
Davy Crockett Non Fiction , Biography Adult , Children , Teen New York : Harcourt 1934
American Humor: A Study of the National Character
- Publication Years: 1931, 1971, 2004 		Non Fiction Adult New York: Harcourt 1931
Troupers of the Gold Coast: The Rise of Lotta Crabtree Non Fiction , Biography Adult New York : Harcourt 1928
Trumpets of Jubilee: Henry Ward Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lyman Beecher, Horace Greeley, P.T. Barnum
- A study of five culturally influential Americans of the 19th century. Publication Years: 1927, 1963 		Non Fiction , Biography Adult New York : Harcourt 1927
Other writings:
- Published in numerous journals and magazines 		Non Fiction Adult

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Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author

Awards:

Name Date
Inducted into Michigan Women's Historical Center & Hall of Fame 2004
Runner-up, Newbery Medal for Davy Crockett 1937
Borden Fund for Foreign Travel and Study

Inclusion in biographical or critical works:

Name Date
Ink Trails II by Dave and Jack Dempsey 2015
Contemporary Authors
-  Contemporary Authors, volume(s) 200 Contemporary Authors - Brief Entry, volume(s) 107 		2002
Michigan Authors, 3rd edition 1993
Yesterday's Authors of Books for Children: Facts and Pictures About Authors and Illustrators of Books for Young People, from Early Times to 1960 (Volumes 1 and 2) 1977
American Authors and Books
Contemporary American Authors
A Critical Survey and 219 Bio-Bibliographies
Current Biography
Dictionary of North American Authors
National Cyclopaedia of American Biography
Reader's Encyclopedia
Twentieth Century Authors
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism
Who Was Who in America
Yesterday's Authors of Books for Children

Education:

Degree Institution Location Date
Studied Sorbonne University of Paris 1908 -1909
Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) Vassar College Poughkeepsie , NY 1907

Career:

Position Organization Location Date
Cultural historian and writer 1920 -1941
English Instructor Vassar College Poughkeepsie , NY 1910 -1915

Other Resources:

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Other Comments:

Death: died of an embolism - in Grand Rapids, MI

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