New York City
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, September 12, 1881 – July 6, 1968, New York City) was an American writer and philanthropist who developed a deep interest in the culture of Latin America and spent much of his life exploring it. Tinker was the grandson of
Joseph Larocque
Joseph La Rocque, also spelled Larocque, (28 August 1808 – 18 November 1887) was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest, professor, and bishop.
Life
Born in Chambly, Lower Canada, Joseph La Rocque received a classical education at the Collèg ...
. He studied at Columbia University Law School. He achieved Ph.D.'s in literature from the
University of Paris
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and the University of Madrid. He also wrote extensively on the culture and history of the city of
Annie Rensselaer Tinker
Annie Rensselaer Tinker was an American suffragist, volunteer nurse, and philanthropist. The daughter of wealthy parents, she sailed to Europe to volunteer as a nurse in World War I, three years before the United States joined the war. Upon her ...
, a suffragist and philanthropist.
Tinker created the Tinker Foundation in 1959 in memory of his second wife Frances McKee Tinker, his father Henry Champlin Tinker, and his grandfather Edward Greenfield Tinker.
The Edward Larocque Tinker Library is located at the
Harry Ransom Center
The Harry Ransom Center (until 1983 the Humanities Research Center) is an archive, library and museum at the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in the collection of literary and cultural artifacts from the Americas and Europe for the pu ...
, the University of Texas at Austin.Edward Larocque Tinker Library. Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
Works
*''Lafcadio Hearn's American Days'', 1924
*''Closed Shutters: Old New Orleans - the Eighties'', 1931
*''Les écrits de langue française en Louisiane au XIXe siècle'', 1932
*''The horsemen of the Americas and the literature they inspired'', 1953
*''Gombo Comes to Philadelphia''1957
*''Life and Literature of the Pampas'', 1961
*''Centaurs of Many Lands'', 1964