DeVoto, Avis

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Dates:
Active 1952
Active 1968
Birth 1904
Birth 1904
Death 1989

Biographical notes:

DeVoto was an editor, specializing in cookbooks, for Alfred A. Knopf, 1956-1958. Prior to that, she had handled the correspondence of her husband, Bernard A. DeVoto (1897-1955) author, editor, historian, and literary critic. She was also House Secretary in Lowell House at Harvard and worked in the dean's office at Radcliffe. The DeVotos had two sons.

From the description of Papers, 1952-1968 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232006572

De Voto was an editor, specializing in cookbooks, for Alfred A. Knopf, 1956-1958. Prior to that, she had handled the correspondence of her husband, Bernard A. De Voto (1897-1955), author, editor, historian, and literary critic. She was also House Secretary in Lowell House at Harvard and worked in the dean's office at Radcliffe.

From the description of Letter, 1964. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232009656

Conservationist; wife of Bernard Augustine De Voto.

From the description of Correspondence to Maxwell Struthers Burt, 1948. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 122543858

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Subjects:

  • Anti-communist movements
  • Cooking
  • Diplomatic and consular service, American

Occupations:

  • Editors

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