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