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Ink trails : Michigan's famous and forgotten authors / Dave Dempsey and Jack Dempsey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dempsey, Dave, 1957-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Authors, American--Homes and haunts--Michigan.
- Authors, American.
- American literature--Michigan.
- American literature.
- Michigan--Intellectual life.
- Michigan.
- Michigan--In literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (201 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Long revered as the birthplace of many of the nation's best-known authors, Michigan has also served as inspiration to countless others. In this entertaining and well-researched book-the first of its kind-the secrets, legends, and myths surrounding some of Michigan's literary luminaries are explored. Which Michigan poet inspired a state law requiring teachers to assign at least one of his compositions to all students? Which young author emerged from the University of Michigan with a bestselling novel derided by some critics as "vulgar"? And from what Michigan city did Arthur Miller, Robert F
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction by Dave Dempsey; Introduction by Jack Dempsey; Southeast Michigan; George Matthew Adams: "Today's Talk"; Kenyon, Frost, and Miller: Arbor Days; Dudley Felker Randall: Urban Trailblazer; Central/South Central Michigan; William McKendree Carleton: Verse Virtuoso; James Oliver Curwood: Champion of God's Country; Marguerite de Angeli: Children Don't Forget; Holling Clancy Holling: Beyond Four Corners; Theodore Huebner Roethke: The Purity of Despair; Maritta Wolff: Sudden Fame; Southwest Michigan; Liberty Hyde Bailey: A Bountiful Life
- Ringgold Wilmer Lardner: Life Is More Than a GameCarl Sandburg: Sand Man; Northern Lower Michigan; Charles Bruce Catton: America's Civil War Storyteller; Sara Gwendolyn Frostic: Spirit Indomitable; Eugene Ruggles: Songs for the Underdog; Upper Peninsula; Carroll Watson Rankin: Northern Light; John Donaldson Voelker: Great Character; Notes
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-62895-083-8
- 1-60917-336-8
- OCLC:
- 797833933
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