- Elvira Garner
Elvira Garner (birth, death) was a 20th Century Florida author and watercolor
illustrator . Her best-knownchildren's book "Ezekiel", published byHenry Holt in 1937, detailed the story of a black boy who lived inSanford, Florida with his Mammy, Pappy and sister Emancipation [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,758512,00.html] . Emblematic of Florida when it was part of theDeep South , Ezekiel was written in African-Americandialect , it was popular in its time, but fell out of favor when books likeLittle Black Sambo were labeledracist . Now highly collected as an artifact ofblack Americana [http://www.utoronto.ca/ams/recroom/away/learn/index.htm] andAfrican American fiction . Ezekiel's type was drawn, with illustrations inserted into the type.In 1939, she published "Sarah Faith Anderson, Her Book", which detailed life in St. Augustine of a girl whose father was a missionary to the Seminoles, captured the feeling of 19th century Florida in words and illustrations [http://www.utoronto.ca/ams/recroom/away/learn/index.htm] . And in 1941, she published "Way Down in Tennessee" [http://catalog.lib.washington.edu:2082/search/aGarner,+D.+E/agarner+d+e/10%2C-1%2C0%2CE/exact&FF=agarner+elvira&1%2C3%2C] .
Her son is
NASA scientistDouglas Garner .Links
* [http://sanfordhistory.tripod.com/newsletters/mar2003.pdf Garner's Dolls at Sanford Historical Society]
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