Helene Maxwell Hooker

Helene Maxwell Hooker (November 20, 1907 – 2006), later known as Helene Maxwell Brewer, was an American historian. She researched Progressive Era politics and was editor of Amos Pinchot's posthumous book History of the Progressive Party, 1912-1916. A 1949 Guggenheim Fellow, she worked as a professor at Queens College before moving to research positions at the University of California, Berkeley.

Biography

She was born on November 20, 1907, in San Francisco, at Tsuda University. she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship "for a study of reform and progressive movements in the Far West", as well as a biography on Progressive-era jurist Francis J. Heney. She edited History of the Progressive Party, 1912-1916, a book based on Amos Pinchot's unfinished drafts on the topic; it was released in 1958. The Bancroft Library obtained her papers from the family of her friend Sarah Caldwell.