Carleton Mabee
Carleton Mabee was an American writer who won the 1944 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for The American Leonardo: The Life of Samuel F B. Morse.
Life
Mabee was born in Shanghai.He graduated from Bates College, and Columbia University.
In 1945, he married Norma Dicking.
He was professor emeritus at State University of New York at New Paltz.
Mabee lived in Gardiner, New York.
Works
- The American Leonardo: A Life of Samuel F. B. Morse, 1943; Literary Licensing, LLC, 2013,
- The Seaway Story, The Macmillan Company, 1961.
- Black Education in New York State: From Colonial to Modern Times, Syracuse University Press, 1979,
- Black Freedom: The Nonviolent Abolitionists from 1830 Through the Civil War, The Macmillan Company, 1970,
- “Saving the Shawangunks: The Struggle to Protect one of Earth’s Great Places” Black Dome Press 2017
- "Bridging the Hudson": The Poughkeepsie Railroad Bridge and it's connecting Rail Lines. Purple Mountain Press, 2001