Susan Tucker is the author of Telling Memories among Southern Women (LSU Press, 1988) and co-editor along with Katherine Ott and Patricia Buckler of The Scrapbook in American Life (Temple University Press, 2006), winner of the Allen Noble Award for best edited book from Pioneer America Society (PAS), 2006.

"Keeping a scrapbook" is a long standing American tradition. The collections of fragments that often bulge their pages and burst their bindings make scrapbooks a pleasurable feast for both makers and consumers. They are a material manifestation of memory-of the compilers and of the cultural moment in which they were created. Despite the widespread popularity of scrapbooks, historians have rarely examined them in a systematic way.