Susan Ware

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Thursday, June 19, 2003
1:15 pm - 2:45 pm

Panel One: Biographical Writings

3:15 pm - 4:45 pm

Panel Two: Biographical Interpretations at Historic Sites, On Stage,and In Film

Susan Ware is currently editing the fifth volume of Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. She taught at New York University from 1986 to 1995. She is the author of several books on women and the New Deal, including the biographies Partner and I: Molly Dewson, Feminism, and New Deal Politics and Still Missing: Amelia Earhart and the Search for Modern Feminism. She has also served as an advisor for documentary editing microform projects on Eleanor Roosevelt and the League of Women Voters. Ware headed the Scholars Advisory Committee and wrote the introduction for American Women: A Library of Congress Guide for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States. She is currently completing a biography of radio pioneer Mary Margaret McBride.