William Marion Reedy discovered, promoted, and nurtured some of America’s most important writers during his almost…
Peter Rindisbacher’s paintings and watercolors are among the earliest images of the…
Gladys Swarthout, a concert and operatic mezzo-soprano, was born in Deepwater, Missouri,…
Marion Talley was born on December 20, 1907, in Nevada, Missouri, the daughter of a…
Pulitzer Prize–winning composer and music critic Virgil Thomson was born in Kansas City,…
Through most of his life, Melvin B. Tolson claimed he was born with the twentieth century…
One of the world’s great Wagnerian sopranos, Helen Traubel was born in south St. Louis on…
In his St. Louis studio, Charles “Carl” Ferdinand Wimar painted the Missouri River frontier…