New Year new #Wikipedia list.
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Wallace Kirkland was a social worker turned award-winning Life Magazine photographer. If you're in the US, he's taken some photos you've definitely seen. I saw a picture of him... taking a picture, by famous Australian photographer Max Dupain and went to Wikipedia to learn more and... nothing! I was fortunate that there were a number of terrific archives which had done the work so that I could learn more about him, and now the world can too.
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Robert Coover died recently. His obits mention his wife, an accomplished textile artist who does a weird and cool kind of needlepoint. Her life is really interesting and I decided to write a bit of it up for Wikipedia.
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Herbert Foerstel was a science librarian at the University of MD. The FBI came to his library on a fishing expedition looking for patron records of people with "Eastern European or Russian-sounding names." He was not ok with this. Through FOIA requests, he was able to learn about the FBI's "Library Awareness Program" which he eventually wrote a book about, along with many other books about patron privacy and book banning in the US. This was a fun article to write.
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Found an image of Dorothy Follis in the Library of Congress' Flickr uploads. Was wondering who she was. Apparently a big deal of a singer and actress (and good at getting into the papers). Had a twelve-year career, was in a few Broadway shows and sang with the Chicago Grand Opera Company and then toured with her own company. Noted for her beauty and her talent, she got married to a newspaper man and died just over a year later at the age of 31.
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Language Log asked why there was no Wikipedia article about badass bibliographer (you heard me) Julia Emily Johnsen. Well, now there is one.
