Poet (1-Aug-1779 — 11-Jan-1843)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Edward S. Delaplaine. Francis Scott Key: Life and Times. Brooklyn, NY: Biography Press. 1937. 506pp.

Sam Meyer. Paradoxes of Fame: The Francis Scott Key Story. Annapolis, MD: Eastwind Publishing. 1995. 102pp.

Irvin Molotsky. The Flag, the Poet and the Song: The Story of the Star-Spangled Banner. New York, NY: Dutton/Plume. 2001.

Victor Weybright. Spangled Banner: The Story of Francis Scott Key. New York: Farrar & Rinehart. 1935. 307pp.

AUTHORITIES

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1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Internet Movie Database [link]

4. Internet Broadway Database [link]

5. Wikipedia [link]

6. Encyclopedia of American Biography (p.643)

7. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.823)

8. Webster's American Biographies (p.584)

9. The Oxford Companion to American Literature, 5th Edition (p.398)

10. American Authors 1600-1900 (p.436)

11. Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, 8th Edition (p.498)

12. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.400)

13. Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of Biography (p.276)

14. Concise Dictionary of American Biography (p.524)

15. The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.8)

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