Courtesy of the Valentine Museum, Richmond, Virginia

This week, I received some excellent advice from two biographer friends.   Update or create an entry for your biographical subject on Wikipedia! This is a great way to let readers know that you are the expert on a particular biographical subject.  I spent a few hours this week updating the  pre-existing “Winnie Davis” Wikipedia entry.  Though some of the facts of her life were correct, a number of important details were not.  For instance, Winnie did not die of “malaria” but of “malarial gastritis” which was a broad nineteenth century diagnosis for stomach ailments.  She did not die in a friend’s home, as the former entry noted, but instead she died at the Rockingham Hotel, a famous resort of the period in Narragansett, Rhode Island.  Etc etc….

Wikipedia is a wonderful tool but it is not always 100% correct.  So caveat emptor:  one cannot live by Wiki alone when doing research!  Unless of course you are looking at the Winnie Davis entry, which will then lead you to my definitive work on the subject!

In any case, now you can read the FASCINATING AND ENTIRELY TRUE TALE of Winnie online written by Heath Hardage Lee, World Winnie Expert, both on my website and NOW on Wikipedia!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnie_...

HHL