Following is an article taken from San Francisco Chronicle,
May 7, 1946
Pulitzer Prize Winner
Linne Marsh Wolfe, whose "Son of the Wilderness" yesterday won the Nation's
highest literary award, a Pulitzer Prize, died last September 15th (1945).
Her book on the life of the great California naturalist, John Muir, published last
summer, was given the award for the best American biography of 1945.
Mrs. Wolfe, a descendant of John Marsh, Contra Costa pioneer, was the widow of Roy N.
Wolfe, one-time city attorney of Pittsburg. For five years prior to her death she
had lived with Mrs. Charles Keeler, 155 El Camino Real, Berkeley, where she completed her
prize winning biography.
For nearly a quarter century, Mrs. Wolfe had intensively studied Muir's life, writings
and personality. From this study she salvaged much material in the form of
manuscripts and diaries, which she edited and published in 1938 under the title,
"John of the Mountains".
Then she began work on the naturalist's biography, a labor that near the last became a
race against death. A year ago, fearing death was imminent she hurriedly finished
the final page proofs of her book and, before going to the hospital, asked a friend to
take over. But she rallied, saw the book published and autographed about a hundred
copies before death stopped her pen.
She was chairman of the historical committee of the Contra Costa Federation of Women's
Clubs and, up to her death, an assistant at the Oakland Public Library.