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Article: THEODORE ROOSEVELT RELEVANT TODAY BIOGRAPHER MORRIS TO SPEAK HERE WEDNESDAY.(BOOKS OF THE TIMES)
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- The Capital Times
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- October 5, 2002
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Byline: Jacob Stockinger
Edmund Morris - one of the most respected biographers today - will speak at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 9, at Canterbury Booksellers, 315 W. Gorham St., as part of the Wisconsin Book Festival.
The first volume of his three-volume biography of Theodore Roosevelt, "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt" (1979), won the Pulitzer Prize.
"Dutch," his controversial and authorized biography of Ronald Reagan that used a fictitious narrator, was a best seller in 1999.
"Theodore Rex," which covers Roosevelt's two terms as president from 1901 to 1909, has sold more than 450,000 copies in hardback and was recently released in ...