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THE MIDDLE TWENTIETH CENTURY, FROM RITCHIE'S FILE
What the file holds. Below the famous names, Ritchie's bibliography carries the city's working authorship — teachers, editors, and specialists who wrote real books from Fort Wayne addresses. Four stand for the file:
Helen B. Clapesattle, a graduate of South Side High School (1925), wrote The Doctors Mayo (1941), the book that fixed the Mayo brothers' story for the general reader and stood for decades as the standard history of the Rochester clinic. Sylvia Edmonia Bowman (born 1914), a Fort Wayne resident from 1944, taught English at Forest Park School and North Side High School, then at the regional campus from 1947, rising to chair its Division of Arts and Sciences in 1970 while editing Twayne's English Authors series; her own book was Edward Bellamy Abroad (1962). Durward Leon Allen (born in Fort Wayne, 1910), a Purdue professor of wildlife ecology and past president of the Wildlife Society, wrote the conservation shelf's Our Wildlife Legacy (1954) and Pheasants in North America (1956). And Nancy Harrison Angelo, writing as Nancy DeAngelis — schooled in Fort Wayne — published the children's book Camembert (Houghton Mifflin, 1958), the story of an artistic mouse.
Two more of this section's characters deserve their sentences. Robert Baral (born in Fort Wayne, 1920), who began as a Journal Gazette reporter, wrote the Broadway nostalgia of Revue: A Nostalgic Reprise of the Great Broadway Period (1962) and Turn West on 23rd Street (1966). And Pierre Boucheron, a retired naval officer settled in Fort Wayne after serving as the Radio Corporation of America's first public-relations director and manager of station WGL here, published How to Enjoy Life After Sixty — this section's most Fort Wayne title by a man whose career had begun in the first years of radio.
Journalists, in one line. The roster's journalist-turned-author is Claude G. Bowers, editor of the Journal Gazette from 1917 to 1922, who went on to write the best-selling The Tragic Era (1929); his Fort Wayne years belong to the newspaper record, told in Newspapers & Media. The city's later journalists-as-authors — Charlie Savage of the signing-statement Pulitzer, and Ashley C. Ford — are profiled in People Completeness.
Sources: Ritchie, comp., Fort Wayne Area Authors (Allen County Public Library) — entries for Clapesattle, Bowman, Allen, Angelo, and Bowers.