The Authors of the OE
Philip Cogswell Jr. is a retired associate editor of the Oregonian. During his thirty-two-year career with the newspaper, he held various writing and editing positions, including Washington, D.C., correspondent, forum section editor, and deputy editorial page editor. During the summer of 1963, he was a congressional intern for Rep. Edith Green.
Scott Cohen completed his M.A. in history at Portland State University. His current research focuses on the rivers of the Pacific Northwest and on Portland's transportation history. He currently works on transportation management and policy development at the City of Portland Bureau of Transportation.
Cary Collins teaches Pacific Northwest history to ninth graders at Tahoma Junior High School in Ravensdale, Washington. He is the editor of Assimilation's Agent: My Life as a Superintendent in the Indian Boarding School System, by Edwin L. Chalcraft, and with SuAnn Reddick is writing a history of the Isaac Stevens treaties.
Marylou Colver holds a Masters in Library Science from the University of California, Berkeley. She founded the Lake Oswego Historic Home Tour in 2007. She conceived of, helped research, and wrote two exhibits: Lost Landmarks: The Fate of Historic Homes in Lake Oswego and Building Blocks: A Pictorial History of Lake Oswego Neighborhoods. In addition she writes articles on local history for the City's newsletter, Hello LO, and serves on the City of Lake Oswego’s Historic Resources Advisory Board. She maintains a blog: http://lakeoswegohistory.blogspot.com.
Ted W. Cox was born in Eugene, Oregon, in 1947. He graduated from the University of La Verne (ULV) in 1969 with a BA in Physical Education and Oregon State University (OSU) in 1975 with an MS in Education. From 1969 to 1973, Cox served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Africa and Central America. During 1975 and 1976 he taught physical education and first aid at Linn-Benton Community College (LBCC) in Albany, Oregon. Since 1977, Ted has owned and operated the Old World Deli in downtown Corvallis, Oregon. He has written two books, The Toledo Incident of 1925, and Murray Loop: Journey of an Oregon Family: 1808-1949.
Fred Crafts is a Eugene arts consultant and national award-winning arts writer. He worked as fine arts editor of the Los Angeles Times and arts editor of the Eugene Register-Guard.
Linda Crew is a fourth-generation Oregonian and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism. Among her nine books are historical novels, Fire on the Wind (1933 Tillamook Burn), Brides of Eden: A True Story Imagined, and A Heart for Any Fate: Westward to Oregon: 1845—winner of the Oregon Book Award and the Willa, named for Willa Cather and given by Women Writing the West. Her first novel, Children of the River, won the International Reading Association’s Children’s Book Award. She lives at Wake Robin Farm in Corvallis, where she and her husband are tree farmers.
Mary Bywater Cross has worked since 1981 in the field of quilt history, taking their value as visual records of human experience beyond the confines of the traditional quilting world to the broader public. Her research has resulted in two books and numerous articles on quilts of migration made by and for women who traveled the Oregon and Mormon Trails. She has curated exhibits of historic and contemporary quilts for regional museums and educational institutions and has lectured in Canada, England, and across America. She travels Oregon as an OCH Chautauqua Scholar.
Lynn Darroch has been writing about jazz and related music for the Oregonian and nationally-circulated magazines since 1979. He edits the monthly magazine Jazzscene, and has written chapters on music figures for The Encyclopedia of United States Popular Culture (Popular Press) and covered the history of jazz in Portland, 1965-present, in the Afterword to Jumptown: the Golden Years of Portland Jazz (Oregon State University Press). He hosts a weekly show on KMHD 89.1 FM and performs live music/spoken word pieces about jazz musicians, recorded on the CDs, Local Heroes/American Originals (2009) and Jazz Stories — Heroes of the Americas (2005).
John C. Davies was brought up and educated in London, United Kingdom. He read English language and literature at Kings College, London, where he gained an M. Phil. He was awarded a Ph.D. in American Studies from Nottingham University and was head of American Studies at Bishop Grosseteste University College, Lincoln. He has published articles on William Carlos Williams, Craig Lesley, Molly Gloss, and Robin Cody and has presented papers on Northwest authors at conferences of the Western Literature Association. He has taught ten summer sessions on northwestern literature at Portland State University.
