Joan Benoit Samuelson collection
Collection Scope and Content
Includes newspaper clippings and articles.
Dates
- 1984-1987
Creator
- Samuelson, Joan Benoit (Person)
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
For permission to reproduce or publish, please contact the Curator of the Maine Women Writers Collection.
Biographical/Historical Note
Joan Benoit Samuelson is a well-known Maine long-distance runner. She grew up in Cape Elizabeth, Maine and started her running career there, after breaking her leg in a skiing accident as a teenager. She attended Bowdoin College. She has won the Boston marathon, the Chicago marathon and the women's marathon at the Olympics. Samuelson has authored two books: her autobiography, Running tide, and Running for women. She currently resides in Freeport, Maine.
Extent
1 folder
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
This collection is organized as a single series.
- Cape Elizabeth (Me.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Clippings Subject Source: TGM II, Genre and physical characteristic terms
- Freeport (Me.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Long-distance runners Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Running Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Samuelson, Joan Benoit
- Women runners Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Creator
- Samuelson, Joan Benoit (Person)
- Title
- Guide to the Joan Benoit Samuelson collection, 1984-1987
- Status
- Completed
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Maine Women Writers Collection Repository
Abplanalp Library
University of New England
716 Stevens Avenue
Portland Maine 04103 United States
mwwc@une.edu