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Lyman Beecher Stowe
1880–1963
A grandson of Harriet Beecher Stowe, he wrote lively, family-centered biography with an insider’s feel for one of America’s most famous literary clans. His best-known book, Saints, Sinners and Beechers, helped keep the Beecher story vivid for later readers.
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Booker T. Washington, Builder of a Civilization
by Emmett J. (Emmett Jay) Scott, Lyman Beecher Stowe
About the author
Born in Saco, Maine, in 1880, Lyman Beecher Stowe came from a remarkable literary family. He was the son of Charles Edward Stowe and the grandson of Uncle Tom’s Cabin author Harriet Beecher Stowe, a background that clearly shaped his lifelong interest in family history and biography.
He is best known for Saints, Sinners and Beechers (1934), a book about the wide-ranging Beecher family and its larger place in American religious and cultural life. He also worked on Harriet Beecher Stowe: The Story of Her Life, published in 1911 with Charles Edward Stowe, helping preserve the story of his famous grandmother for a new generation.
Stowe died in 1963. Though he is not as widely remembered as some of the Beechers he wrote about, his books remain valuable for readers curious about the family behind Harriet Beecher Stowe and the world that surrounded them.