Betty Jean Steinshouer
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Betty Jean Steinshouer

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Betty Jean Steinshouer was born in the Missouri Ozarks, tenth of eleven. First in her family to graduate from college, she worked her way through undergraduate school on a speech and debate scholarship. After doing her graduate thesis on Virginia Woolf and working as a speech-writer in Washington, D.C., she became a literary historian and award-winning Chautauqua speaker, touring 43 states and Canada with her one-woman shows of famous authors. "Willa Cather Speaks" is the most popular, called "tour-de-force theatre" and "life-changing." Once Willa Cather's long-forbidden letters came into the public domain in 2018, Steinshouer felt free to write what her many years of research revealed about Cather's inner life and the "turf wars" in Cather studies from her death in 1947, throughout the rest of the 20th century, and into the new millennium. She also became a Fellow in Florida Studies at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg, working for 20 years on a book about women authors in Florida, originally requested by the editors of the History and Culture series published by University Press of Florida. She has also portrayed Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sarah Orne Jewett, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Gertrude Stein, Flannery O'Connor, and Marjory Stoneman Douglas, doing years of primary research, drawing on the author's correspondence, personal history, writings, and travel, to bring each fully to life. Steinshouer writes poetry and fiction when she is not busy chronicling human life through live presentations and essays. Her novel trilogy and collected poems have so far taken a back seat to her Chautauqua career and the "companion series" spun like a tapestry from that work.
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