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(1940-2021) Sociologist, author. Sara McLanahan was born in Tyler, Texas, and died in Manhattan, New York.

Full Name

Sara McLanahan

Locations

Westchester

Author's Timeline

1940

BIRTH

Sara McLanahan was born Sara Frances Smith in Tyler, Texas, on December 27, 1940.

1959

OTHER

Ms. McLanahan graduated from Bennet Junior College in Irvington, New York, in 1959.

1986

LITWORK

Single Mothers and Their Children: A New American Dilemma
Urban Institute Press
0877664056 / 9780877664055
Nonfiction written with Irwin Garfinkel.

1989

LITWORK

Single Mothers, the Underclass, and Social Policy
Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Nonfiction.

1994

LITWORK

Growing Up With a Single Parent: What Hurts, What Helps
Harvard University Press
0674364074 / 978-0674364073
Nonfiction written with Gary Sandefur.

2011

LITWORK

The Future of Children
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
0981470572 / 978-0981470573
Nonfiction.

2021

DEATH

Sara McLanahan died at her home in Manhattan, New York, on December 31, 2021.

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