Authors and Illustrators Database

Born: 11/28/1901  Appleton
Died: 02/19/1994
Parents: Freeman A. and Winifred Aurelia Havighurst
Spouse: Marion Boyd Havighurst

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	Midwest and Great Plains - Editor. A social studies text introducing the geography, history, people, industries, agriculture, and resources of the eight midwestern and six plains states.	Non Fiction	Children, Teen	Grand Rapids, Mich. : Fideler Co.	1979
	Men of Old Miami, 1809-1873: A Book of Portraits	Non Fiction		Putnam	1974
	River to the West: Three Centuries of the Ohio	History	Adult	New York, Putnam	1970
	The long ships passing, the story of the Great lakes	History	Adult	New York, The Macmillan Company	1967
	The Great Lakes Reader - Editor	Non Fiction	Adult	New York, The Macmillan company	1966
	Three Flags at the Straits: The Forts of Mackinac - History of the Northwest Territories, work of Jacques Marquette, War of 1812, and the Straits of Mackinac	Michigan History	Teen	Englewood Cliffs, N. J., Prentice-Hall	1966
	Song of the Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin - With Marion Havighurst	History	Adult	New York : Henry Holt	1966
	The Midwest - Revision of Life in the Midwest (Publication Years: 1965, 1967)	Non Fiction	Children, Teen	Grand Rapids, Mich. : Fideler Co.	1965-1967
	Voices of the River: The Story of the Mississippi Waterways	History	Adult	New York : The MacMillan Company	1964
	The Heartland: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois - A history in which "giant industry is contrasted with somnolent, fertile fields of giant agriculture.... Adventurers and dreamers, agitators and responsible statesmen, Southern hoosiers and Yankee pioneers, men of many nations and many tongues shaped the destiny of America's heartland.	History	Adult	New York, New York : Harper and Row	1962
	The First Book of Pioneers: Northwest Territory	History	Children, Teen	Chicago : Franklin Watts	1959
	The Miami years, 1809-1959. - History of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.	History	Adult	New York, Putnam	1959-1969
	Buffalo Bill's great Wild West Show	History	Children	New York, Random House	1957
	Wilderness for Sale: The First Western Land Rush	History	Adult	New York, Hastings House	1956
	Annie Oakley of the Wild West - Republished, 2003; With new introduction.	Biography	Adult	Edison, N.J. : Castle Books	1954-2003
	Life in the Midwest	Non Fiction	Children	Grand Rapids, Mich. : Fideler Co.	1951
	Song of the Pines: A Story of Norwegian Lumbering in Wisconsin - With Marion Havighurst	Historical Fiction	Adult	Philadelphia, J.C. Winston Co.	1949
	Land of Promise: The Story of the Northwest Territory	History	Adult	New York, The Macmillan company	1946
	Long Ships Passing: The Story of the Great Lakes - (Publication Years: 1942, 1961, 1975)	Non Fiction	Adult	New York, The Macmillan company	1942-1975
	Designs for Writing - Co-editor			Dryden	1939
	Pier 17: A Novel - nominated for a Pulitzer Prize	Fiction	Adult	New York, The Macmillan company	1935
	Other writings: - Articles in American Heritage, Saturday Review, The American West and others	Non Fiction

What is the aim or goal of your writing: "As a youthful seaman on Great Lakes freighters I developed an interest in the history of transportation on American waterways. That interest, still continuing, has led to the writing of most of my books. I am especially drawn to Upper Michigan and the entire Lake Superior country. The best literary sources I have found for an understanding of that region are represented in my anthology The Great Lakes Reader Macmillan 1966."

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

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

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