Authors and Illustrators Database

Louise Jean Walker

Born: 02/10/1891  Jackson, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent
Died: 07/01/1976
Parents: Quinton Smith Walker

Writings

Image Title Genre Audience Publisher Date
Daisy: The Story of a Horse
- Daisy refused to pull the grocery wagon after 6pm on Saturdays. Story takes place in Jackson, MI in the 1890s. Illustrated by Betty Beeby.
Fiction, Michigan Children Grand Rapids, Mich., Eerdmans 1970
Daisy Strikes on Saturday Night Fiction, Michigan Children Hillsdale, Mich. : Hillsdale Educational Publishers 1968
Beneath the Singing Pines Michigan History Children Hillsdale, Mich. : Hillsdale Educational Publishers 1967
Woodland Wigwams Folklore, Michigan Children Hillsdale, MI : Hillsdale Educational Publishers 1964
Red Indian Legends : tribal tales of the Great Lakes
- Chippewa Indian Legends
Folklore Children London : Odhams Press Limited 1961
Legends of Green Sky Hill
- Foreword by E. C. Beck of Chippewa Indian Legends
Folklore Children Grand Rapids, Eerdmans 1959
Other writings:
- Over 160 articles and stories for such magazines as Children's Activities, Highlights for Children, Journal of American Folklore, American Nature Magazine, Your Personality, Our Dumb Animals, The English Journal and others
Children
What is the aim or goal of your writing: 2nd ed says, "While living in Charlevoix, Michigan she became interested in Chippewa Indian legends and felt they should be preserved. It often took six weeks to get the story of one legend from an Indian squaw. She gathered 64 legends and the material for her books in northern Michigan, Wisconsin, and southern California."

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

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author
Illustrator

Inclusion in biographical or critical works:

Name Date
Literary Michigan by the Michigan Council for the Humanities 1988
Something About the Author, Vol. 35 1984
Michigan Authors, 1st ed., 2nd ed., 3rd. ed.
- Publication years: 1960, 1980, 1993
1960-1993
Directory of American Scholars
Who's Who of American Women

Education:

Degree Institution Location Date
Master of Arts (M.A.) Columbia University New York, NY 1924
Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) Albion College Albion, MI 1917
- Studies at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; University of Colorado; Miami University

Career:

Position Organization Location Date
Associate Professor of English Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent 1924-1961
Visiting professor New Highlands University Las Vegas
Teacher of high school English
- Before 1923
Indiana, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent

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