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Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship, Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers is a 1971 biography of Eleanor Roosevelt written by Joseph P. Lash. Its companion volume, Eleanor: The Years Alone (1972), covers her life as a widow after Franklin D. Roosevelt's death. The biography won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. [1]
On December 1, 1883, she married Elliott Roosevelt [6] in Calvary Church at Gramercy Park in New York City. [7] The couple moved into a brownstone house in the fashionable East Thirties. [3]: 22 Anna and Elliott had three children: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) [8] Elliott Roosevelt Jr. (1889–1893) [9] Gracie Hall Roosevelt (1891 ...
Eleanor wrote This Is My Story in 1936. [2] The book was published in 1937 by Harper & Brothers.The first edition was 365 pages. [3] It was an autobiographical account of Eleanor's life to shortly before Franklin's involvement in Al Smith's campaign for governor of New York in 1924.
Eleanor Roosevelt School, also known as the Eleanor Roosevelt Vocational School for Colored Youth, Warm Springs Negro School, and the Eleanor Roosevelt Rosenwald School, which operated as a school from March 18, 1937, until 1972, was a historical Black community school located at 350 Parham Street at Leverette Hill Road in Warm Springs, Georgia.
Elliott Roosevelt was a son of President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962). He was named after his maternal grandfather, Elliott Roosevelt (1860–1894). His siblings were Anna (1906–1975), James (1907–1991), Franklin Jr. (1914–1988), and John (1916–1981).
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962) was the First Lady of the United States, from March 4, 1933 to April 12, 1945; as the wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Eleanor Roosevelt's two previous memoirs, This I Remember and This Is My Story, had covered her life up to Franklin's death in 1945. On My Own was published in 1958 and covered Eleanor's life as an individual after the death of her husband. [3] [4] It was published by Harper & Brothers and the first edition was 241 pages. [5]
A portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt writing her My Day column in 1949.. My Day was a newspaper column written by First Lady of the United States Eleanor Roosevelt (ER) six days a week from December 31, 1935, to September 26, 1962. [1]