Harriet Beecher Stowe A Biography Noel B Gerson 1976 Hardcover Family Bookshelf Harriet Beecher Stowe a Biography by Noel B. Gerson, published by Praeger Publishers in 1976. This Family Bookshelf Edition features a textured brown hardcover with gold-tone lettering on the spine. A comprehensive look at the life of the influential author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, this volume includes a dust jacket with design by Joan Peckolick. The interior includes a personal inscription dated Nov 1978 on the front endpaper. A significant biographical work for collectors of American literary history and 19th-century studies.