Nebraska Authors

Maupin was a storied Nebraska newspaperman whose 60 plus year career took him to over 20 different Nebraska newspapers. He was an interesting character. After he left high school and learned something of the printers trade, through the early 1880s he worked as a tramp printer, or "typographical tourist" as he liked to say, wandering north to Winnepeg in Canada and south to Caracas, Venezuela. He had a widely read column, "Limnings" in the Omaha World Herald in the 1890s. He sometimes worked for multiple newspapers at the same time, holding on to his post as columnist at the Omaha World Herald for some time, while working for other papers. He was introduced to William Jennings Bryan in the late 1880s, and worked on Bryan's newspaper, The Commoner from 1901 to 1913. He enthusiastically supported Bryan in all three of his presidential campaigns. He helped found the Nebraska Federation of Labor in 1909 and served as its first President. He ran for public office on a number of occasions but was never elected.

See also journalist Richard L. Metcalfe.

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Janovy is a parasitologist with a strong research interest in parasite ecology. The publication of his Keith County Journal in 1978 made him famous as a writer of best selling natural history of the highest literary quality. His theme in this and several later books was, as he put it, "what you can learn from nature while learning about it." Yellowlegs and Return to Keith County were similar, well received natural histories. Civilization, the magazine of the Library of Congress, described Janovy as the 'literary son of Thoreau.' He helped create a television version of Keith County Journal for ETV in 1984.

Besides heading his own parasitology lab, Janovy would serve as Interim Director of the University of Nebraska State Museum, 1984-86 at a time when the museum faced a crisis of financial support and leadership. He has been the director of the Cedar Point Biological Station outside Ogallala, NE, where he has taught biological field school along with colleague Paul Johnsgard. He has written many books, some under the pseudonym Jack Blake, that explore philosophical issues related to science, teaching and learning.

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Noble was born in Iowa and worked as a journalist in Ohio, Minnesota and Nebraska in the late 1920s. He and his wife came to Nebraska City in 1937, where Noble worked for the state and federal re-employment office later known as the Job Service. He retired from that work in 1967. After retirement, he and his wife (Lillian Peterka Noble), acquired and restored the Wildwood Home and helped establish the Wildwood Cultural Center and Museum.

Noble published numerous pamphlets on local history, wrote weekly columns on local history for the Nebraska City News Press, and assisted in local historical projects including the the Brownville Restoration Project, through the Nebraska State Historical Society. Noble published several local histories focused on southeast Nebraska, Brownville, Nebraska City, and the era of the steamboat.

The Heritage Room is the repository of the Glen Noble papers. Link to Collection Summary.

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