Leta Stetter Hollingworth

(1886-1939) born near Chadron, Dawes County, lived in Valentine and Lincoln. Psychologist, educator, author, known as pioneer of field of gifted education, she authored in 1928 The Psychology of the Adolescent, which became a standard textbook, and promoted women's greater professional commitments and achievements in business and public life. Consult UNL Nebraska Alumnus, March 1939, pp. 5, 32 and Nebraska History, Winter 1975, pp. 493-505 and American National Biography, Vol 11 (1999) 67-68 and Ann G. Klein, A Forgotten Voice: A Biography of Leta Stetter Hollingworth (Great Potential Press, 2002).

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