Lowry C. Wimberly

(1890-1959) lived in Lincoln. Educator, authority on folklore, co-founded the Prairie Schooner in 1926, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln literary quarterly, now one of the three oldest continuously published "little" magazines in the nation, prolific author of books, magazine articles, and commentary in newspapers. Consult Omaha World Herald Magazine, June 24, 1951, p. G-5 and Paul R. Stewart, The Prairie Schooner Story (University of Nebraska Press, 1955) and Prairie Schooner, Vol 51 (Spring 1977) 16-50 and Christine Pappas, More Notable Nebraskans (Media Productions and Marketing, 2001) 139-144.

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