Louise Harrison McCraw, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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novelist and philantropist
Date of Birth: 01-Jan-0001
Date of Death: 25-Jan-1975
Profession: librarian, novelist, philanthropist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Louise Harrison McCraw
- Louise Harrison McCraw (February 1893 – January 25, 1975) was an American writer and philanthropist.
- She was the founding director of the Braille Circulating Library of Richmond, Virginia. McCraw was a native of Buckingham County, Virginia, the daughter of Emmett and Bettie McCraw.
- As a child she wanted to be a writer, and by eleven she had begun sending her work to the children's page of the Richmond Times-Dispatch; several of her stories were published.
- She graduated from the Women's College of Richmond in 1911, and moved home to Buckingham County to teach school.
- A devout Presbyterian, she returned to Richmond in the 1920s to become secretary of the Excelsior Band.
- She lived with her sister Bessie in a Richmond boarding house at this time.McCraw was a great admirer of the work of Presbyterian writer James H.
- McConkey, and after she heard him speak in Richmond she suggested that he publish his work in braille.
- Together the couple established the Braille Circulating Library in 1925; its first headquarters were in McCraw's rented room.
- The library was funded entirely by private donations and consisted mainly of evangelical Christian literature.
- By 1951 McCraw was sending books, free, to nearly 1,800 borrowers both in the United States and in eighteen countries.McGraw began publishing novels in 1936.
- All of her fiction dealt with Christian themes; she also penned a biography of McConkey.
- She was named secretary emerita of the Braille Circulating Library in 1969 after her retirement.
- McCraw was named one of the Virginia Women in History by the Library of Virginia in 2017.
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