Linda H. Matthews
Born: in Portland, Oregon
Pen Name: None Connection to Illinois: Linda has lived for many years in Evanston, Illinois. Biography: Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, Matthews grew up in a modest middle-class family. Her mother was a first-grade teacher and her father worked for the FHA. Linda graduated from Reed College and then studied at Tufts University before moving to the Chicago area, where she has lived most of her adult life. After brief interludes teaching medieval literature at Northwestern University and managing a small Chicago bookstore, Linda co-founded ''Chicago Review Press'' along with her husband, Curt. She was a publisher there until 2005, when she stepped down in order to research and write ''Middling Folk''. Linda enjoys contributing articles to historical newsletters, practicing yoga, and working in her vegetable garden. She currently resides in Evanston, Illinois.
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Website: http://www.middlingfolk.com
Linda H. Matthews on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=linda++h.+matthews
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Middling folk : ISBN: 9781556529696 OCLC: 558536166 Chicago Review Press, Chicago : ©2010. Telling the stories of those who quietly conducted the business and built the livelihoods that made their societies prosper or fail, this account shows how one Scots-Irish American family, the Hammills - millers and blacksmiths - lived out their lives against the backdrop of the American Revolution, the Civil War, and westward expansion. |