Missouri Biography Series

Editor, William E. Foley

For almost twenty years the Missouri Biography Series, published by the University of Missouri Press, has accomplished a valuable goal--making available biographies of notable Missourians. The series focuses on citizens who were born in the state and those whose careers had significant impact on the region. From baseball great Stan Musial to renowned musician Scott Joplin to former president Harry S. Truman, the Missouri Biography Series highlights the lives of some of the notable individuals who have dwelt in our magnificent state.

• Alexander William Doniphan: Portrait of a Missouri Moderate, by Roger D. Launius
• Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Woman behind the Legend, by John E. Miller
• Creed for My Profession: Walter Williams, Journalist to the World, by Ronald T. Farrar
• Dancing to a Black Man's Tune: A Life of Scott Joplin, by Susan Curtis.
• François Vallé and His World: Upper Louisiana before Lewis and Clark, by Carl J. Ekberg
• Frank Blair: Lincoln's Conservative, by William E. Parrish
• From Prairie to Prison: The Life of Social Activist Kate Richards O'Hare, by Sally M. Miller
• Frontier Doctor: William Beaumont, America's First Great Medical Scientist, by Reginald Horsman
• Frontier Swashbuckler: The Life and Legend of John Smith T, by Dick Steward
• Ghost in the Little House: A Life of Rose Wilder Lane, by William Holtz
• Governor Lady: The Life and Times of Nellie Tayloe Ross by Teva J. Scheer
• Harry S. Truman: A Life, by Robert H. Ferrell
• Holy Joe: Joseph W. Folk and the Missouri Idea, by Steven L. Piott
• James Milton Turner and the Promise of America: The Public Life of a Post-Civil War Black Leader, by Gary R. Kremer
• A Missouri Railroad Pioneer: The Life of Louis Houck, by Joel P. Rhodes
• Missouri's Confederate: Claiborne Fox Jackson and the Creation of Southern Identity in the Border West, by Christopher Phillips
• Musial: From Stash to Stan the Man, by James N. Giglio
• Nathan B. Young and the Struggle over Black Higher Education by Antonio F. Holland
• Nathan Boone and the American Frontier, by R. Douglas Hurt
• No Ordinary Joe: A Life of Joseph Pulitzer III by Daniel Pfaff
• Pendergast! Lawrence H. Larsen and Nancy J. Hulston
• Rebel against Injustice: The Life of Frank P. O'Hare, by Peter H. Buckingham
• Stuart Symington: A Life, by James C. Olson
• Thad Snow: A Life of Social Reform in the Missouri Bootheel, by Bonnie Stepenoff
• Wilderness Journey: The Life of William Clark, by William E. Foley
• William J. Spillman and the Birth of Agricultural Economics by Laurie Winn Carlson

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