York, Dena (1953 - )

Genre: Non-Fiction

Dena Lynn Winslow York was born in Caribou and raised on a dairy and potato farm in Mapleton, ME. She graduated from Presque Isle High School (1971) and attended the University of ME Presque Isle (BS, 1975), University of Southern Maine (ME, 1988), and the University of Maine (Ph.D, 2000). She was a teacher for many years, winning the IBM Maine Teacher of the Year award in 1989. She lives in Presque Isle.

Selected Bibliography

  • Mapleton, Maine (1980)
  • History of the Greater Ashland, Maine, Area (1983)
  • The County: Land of Promise: a Pictorial History of Aroostook County, Maine (1989)
  • "They lynched Jim Cullen": New England's Only Lynching (2005)