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December 6, 2006 EAKINS BIOGRAPHER TO VISIT MFS DECEMBER 8
Authors William S. and Mary Drake McFeely will visit Moorestown Friends School on Friday, December 8. They will participate in informal seminar-style discussions with students beginning at 9:40 a.m. William McFeely won a Pulitzer Prize in 1982 for his biography of Ulysses S. Grant titled Grant: A Biography. On Friday, he will discuss his career, including his new book Portrait: A Life of Thomas Eakins, an especially topical book considering the recent controversy surrounding the potential sale by Thomas Jefferson University of Eakins’ painting “The Gross Clinic.” He has also written biographies of Frederick Douglass and Civil War Union General Oliver Otis Howard, as well as a memoir titled Sapelo’s People and a book examining the death penalty titled Proximity to Death. William McFeely is currently a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Simultaneously, Mary Drake McFeely will discuss her book Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?: American Women and the Kitchen in the 20th Century, which examines the relationship of women and cooking in the 20th century. She has also written a book titled Lady Inspectors: The Campaign for a Better Workplace, 1893-1921, about factory inspectors in turn-of-the-century Britain. Daughter Eliza McFeely is an Upper School Social Studies teacher at Moorestown Friends School. ###
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