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MEMOIR AND THE MODERN PICTURE BOOKS
The memoir. The notable modern book about growing up in Fort Wayne is Ashley C. Ford's Somebody's Daughter (2021), a memoir whose childhood chapters are set in this city — the Fort Wayne of her grandmother's house and her mother's struggles, written by the Fort Wayne-raised author profiled in People Completeness. It is the book through which most current readers outside Indiana have met the city from the inside.
The picture shelf. The city's modern popular-history shelf — Randolph L. Harter's Legendary Locals of Fort Wayne (Arcadia Publishing), his Lindenwood Cemetery volume with photographer Dan Baker, and Dodie Marie Miller's African Americans in Fort Wayne (Arcadia) among them — belongs with the history writing treated in Sources, and is named here only so the shelf is not missed. Harter, the city's present-day popular historian, built his books on a private collection of more than four thousand Fort Wayne postcards, since donated to the Allen County Public Library.
A negative, stated. No book-length work by or about Fort Wayne's Burmese community — the largest Burmese community, by share, of any American metro — was verified for this record. That community's story is told in Communities; its book, if it comes, will be shelved here when it exists.
Sources: Publisher records (Arcadia Publishing; the Ford memoir, 2021); City of Fort Wayne Preservation Month profile of Randolph L. Harter (2024); Communities (this record).