Karal Ann Marling is Professor of Art History and American Studies at the University of Minnesota. Her many books include George Washington Slept Here, Iwo Jima, and As Seen on TV, all published by Harvard.

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More information on Karal Ann Marling is available on the Internet:

The University of Minnesota has a short biography of her on the Art History Department site.

She has been visiting professor at various universities, including
Harvard (Henry Luce Foundation Visiting Professor in American History) and the University of Wyoming (1994 William Robertson Coe Distinguished Visiting Chair in the American Studies Department--the article on her is titled "Poor Boys and Pilgrims").

The Karal Ann Marling Collection of papers on New Deal art programs resides at the Case Western Reserve University Library site, which includes another short biography of the author.

As Seen on TV was awarded a 1995 Minnesota Book Award for History.

Marling presides over the "Mobility and Placelessness in the Great Depression" section of the 1996 Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting.

Marling contributed to a recent PBS program entitled "The Man Who Drew Bug-Eyed Monsters," on movie poster illustrator Reynold Brown.

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