Junior Library Guild
What I've Been Working On
A new book! Louisine Lights a Legacy: How Louisine Havemeyer Fired Up America’s Woman Suffrage. Meet art collector, museum benefactor, and suffragist Louisine Havemeyer.
Louisine Havemeyer, 1896, painted by Mary Cassatt [Wikimedia Commons]
![Louisine W. Havemeyer and the Liberty Torch, 1919 [Wikimedia Commons]](https://kerriehollihan.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Louisine-W.-Havemeyer-and-Liberty-Torch_1919_Wikimedia_600px-600x448.jpg "Louisine-W.-Havemeyer-and-Liberty-Torch_1919_Wikimedia_600px")
Experience the bravery and wiliness of this woman who counted Mary Cassatt among her friends, built an incredible art collection that she and her husband donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, and perhaps most powerfully contributed her words and will to American women’s efforts to add the right for women to vote to the Constitution.
I was so intrigued by Louisine when I researched her for my book Rightfully Ours: How Women Won the Vote that I decided to delve deeper into her life and share her true story with you.
Can’t wait for you to read the picture book biography, coming from Abrams Books for Young Readers in spring 2026. I don’t have a cover to share with you yet, but I hope these pictures will intrigue you as much as they intrigue me.