Helen Muir,  journalism history,  Marjory Stoneman Douglas,  Miami Herald

Helen Muir


This week I am working on telling the story of Florida journalist and library advocate Helen Muir.

Born in Yonkers, New York, Muir moved to Miami in 1934. She was a columnist for the Universal Service syndicate from 1935 to 1938, and after marriage and motherhood, continued writing for the Miami News and the Miami Herald until 1965.

But, likely her greatest love was libraries. She chaired the State Library Advisory Council and was instrumental in organizing the Miami-Dade Library System. Like many women in Florida, she was instrumental in helping establish the foundation of her community. She also wrote several books.

Helen was a good friend of environmentalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas, as well as Miami women’s page journalists Marie Anderson and Dorothy Jurney.

She wrote a memoir, Baby Grace Sees the Cow: A Memoir, and her oral history is part of the Society of Woman Geographer. Her papers are at the University of Miami. I hope to go through them this fall.

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