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Joan Paterson Kerr

Joan Paterson Kerr (1921-1996) was a founding picture editor of American Heritage magazine. She was a co-editor of American Album, published by American Heritage, and The Romantic Egoists, a pictorial history of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. Mrs. Kerr also compiled A Bully Father: Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children (1995).

Articles by this Author

Family Platters, December 1982 | Vol. 34, No. 1
From Germany and Switzerland, farmer-potters transplanted their skills to Pennsylvania and produced a distinctive ceramic found nowhere else in America
“I … sigh in the midst of cheerful company”
Olana, August 1975 | Vol. 26, No. 5
High on a hill above the Hudson River Frederick Edwin Church indulged his passion for building an exotic dream castle
OF BALLOONS, THE FIRST AIR-MAIL LETTERS, AND THE EVER-ENTERPRISING FRANKLIN FAMILY