Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir

Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1881-1945) was an American librarian and author best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of John Muir, Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir (1945), awarded posthumously in 1946, and for editing John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir (1938), [Google Books]. Born in Big Rapids, Michigan, she worked as a teacher and librarian in California, served as secretary of the John Muir Association, and conducted extensive interviews with Muir's family for her works. Her Muir biography remains required reading at the John Muir National Historic Site.