Alberta Powell Graham (1875–1955)
Autor/a de Lafayette: Friend of America
Sobre l'autor
Obres de Alberta Powell Graham
GREAT BANDS OF AMERICA 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1875
- Data de defunció
- 1955-03-12
- Lloc d'enterrament
- Ottumwa Cemetery, Ottumwa, Iowa, USA
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Harrington, Delaware, USA
- Llocs de residència
- Ottumwa, Iowa, USA
Washington, D.C., USA - Educació
- American Conservatory of Music
Columbia University
Northwestern University
Cornell University - Professions
- children's book author
Biographer
Musician
composer - Biografia breu
- Alberta Powell Graham was born in Harrington, Delaware and moved to Ottumwa, Iowa, with her family when she was a child. She graduated from the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago, and became a noted musician and composer. She also studied at Columbia University, Northwestern University, Cornell University, and with private teachers. She served as Supervisor of Music in the public schools of Iowa, and published more than 200 songs for children.
In 1939, she moved to Washington, D.C., where she did historical research at the Library of Congress. She wrote biographies of famous American figures for children, and contributed stories, poems, articles, plays, and songs to numerous magazines.
Membres
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 10
- Membres
- 99
- Popularitat
- #191,538
- ISBN
- 3