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A Son of the Middle Border

A Son of the Middle Border

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Author Hamlin Garland

Minnesota Historical Society Press (January 15, 2007)

Pulitzer Prize winner Hamlin Garland recounts his journey from a rural childhood to a man of letters in this captivating autobiography.

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A classic of American realism, A Son of the Middle Border (1917) is the true coming-of-age odyssey of a farm boy who—informed by the full brute force of a homesteaders’ life on the vast unbroken prairie—would become a preeminent American writer of the early twentieth century. Pulitzer Prize winner Hamlin Garland’s captivating autobiography recounts his journey from a rural childhood to the study of literature and the sciences in Boston, his vital connections with such inspirations as William Dean Howell, and eventually his reclaimed sense of identity as a writer of the Midwest’s beautiful yet hard land. This definitive book placed Garland among such regionalist writers as Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, and Theodore Dreiser.

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Hamlin Garland (1860–1940), author of more than 40 books, is best known for his short story collection Main-Travelled Roads. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1918 and won the Pulitzer Prize for literature in 1922.


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  • 384 pages
  • 5.5 x 8.5 inches
  • ISBN: 9780873515658

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