A Son of the Middle Border

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.

Author: Hamlin Garland
Publisher: Borealis Books
Published: 01/15/2007
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.60w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780873515658

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 02/15/2007 pg. 159

About the Author
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.