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Harriet Beecher Stowe

NAME: Harriet Beecher Stowe

BORN: June 14, 1811

PARENTS:

Lyman Beecher and Roxana Foote Beecher

COMMUNITY AFFILIATIONS:

born...Litchfield, Connecticut
family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio (Hamilton County), 1832

OCCUPATION: author

DIED: July 1, 1896, Hartford, Connecticut

FAST FACTS:

Stowe started writing for the Western Monthlymagazine in 1834. Her first book, The Mayflower, was published in 1849.

Uncle Tom's Cabin was published in 1852.