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Joan Hume McCracken was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on December 31, 1917, [3] the daughter of Mary Humes and Franklin T. McCracken, a prominent sportswriter at the Philadelphia Public Ledger who was an authority on golf and boxing.
McCracken, a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, graduated from Newton North High School in Newton, Massachusetts, earned a B.A. and M.A. in English from Boston University, an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa, and an M.S. in Library Science from Drexel University.
Mary Ann McCracken (1770–1866), Irish social activist and campaigner Mary Elizabeth McCracken (1911–1945), Chinese-born American medical missionary Mary Isabel McCracken (1866—1955), American entomologist, researcher, and teacher
Writing as L.A.M. Priestley or L.A.M. Priestley-McCracken, she contributed to journals that ranged from the English suffragist journal The Vote and the more overtly feminist The Irish Citizen, [8] to The Irish Presbyterian and the theosophist journal The Herald of the Star. [9] Some of her articles were collected and published as popular ...
Mary Elizabeth McCracken (February 2, 1911 – October 19, 1945) [1] was the first woman to overcome infantile paralysis to become a medical missionary. [1] She was the third of eight children [ 1 ] and the daughter of the medical missionaries Josiah Calvin McCracken [ 2 ] and Helen Newpher McCracken, [ 3 ] also known as the "McCrackens of ...
Mary Ann McCracken (8 July 1770 – 26 July 1866) was a social activist and campaigner in Belfast, Ireland, whose extensive correspondence is cited as an important chronicle of her times.
Patricia Marie MacLachlan (née Pritzkau; March 3, 1938 – March 31, 2022) was an American children's writer. She was noted for her novel Sarah, Plain and Tall , which won the 1986 Newbery Medal . Early life
Annie Virginia McCracken (née, McLaughlin; pen name, Alma Vivian Mylo; October 13, 1868 – 1892 or later) was a pseudonymous American author who wrote short stories for literary magazines. [1] She also founded a magazine, serving as its editor and proprietor.