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Monday, April 25, 2011
John James Audubon
Naturalist, Artist (26-Apr-1785 — 27-Jan-1851)SUBJECT OF BOOKSAlexander B. Adams. John James Audubon: A Biography. New York: Putnam. 1966. 510pp.Stanley Clisby Arthur. Audubon: An Intimate Life of the American Woodman. New Orleans: Harmanson.1937. 517pp.Maria R. Audubon. Audubon and His Journals. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1887. (2 vols.) 532pp. + 554pp.Robert Buchanan (editor). The Life
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON
Artist and Naturalist*Born April 26, 1785 - Died January 27,1851 John James Audubon was the illegitimate* son of a sea captain, Jean Audubon and a servant girl on a sugar plantation in Haiti. His mother Jeanne Rabin died when he was not yet a year old. His father cared for him a couple of years then sent the child to France to be raised by his middle-aged wife Anne, who was fourteen years older
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