Born: 11/18/1905   Ironwood , MI
Died: 05/08/1994
Parents: Samuel and Mary Carlson
Spouse: Maryjane
Children: Kristin Rowe
Address(es):
Last known address:
Belleair Bluffs , FL

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	Lifelines Through the Arctic	Non Fiction , History	Adult	New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce	1962
	The Municipal University	Non Fiction	Adult	Washington, Center for Applied Research in Education	1962
	Report of the Northern Division of the Fourth University of Michigan Greenland Expedition	Non Fiction	Adult	Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press	1941
	Greenland Lies North	Travel	Adult	New York, The Macmillan company	1940
	Manual for the Supervising Teacher			Minneapolis, MN	1940
	Student Teachers Handbook - With C. W. Boardman			Burgess	1940

What is the aim or goal of your writing: Some years ago on a sledging expedition in Greenland I spent a night at Kigtorsak, a small winter colony, whose director was a combination dictator and sage. He was an old man among Eskimos; but his watery eyes were penetrating, and with the help of a cane fashioned from a willow he was as spry as a man of twenty. He claimed the ice at Kigtorsak became poor when the Panama Canal was opened and joined the two oceans. Seal hunting on sea ice was destroyed. The director was righteously indignant. Two years earlier he had gone so far as to draw a petition to have the Canal closed. (The petition got as far as Godhaven, capital of North Greenland, before being shelved.) Fortunately for me, an American, he did not know the exact location of the Canal, believing it to be in Denmark, and I was able to enjoy his unstinted hospitality.

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: No

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author

Name	Date
Henry Goodard Leach Fellowship of American-Scandinavian Foundation
Honorary Doctor of Letters (LL.D.) Dickinson College, University of Delaware, University of Michigan, Middlebury College, University of Cincinnati
Honorary Doctor of Letters (D. Litt:) University of Toledo
Honorary Doctor of Science (D. Sc.): Alfred University, Bowling Green State University

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