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Minnesota's
Literary Visitors
Minnesota
Book Award Winner
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By
John T. Flanagan, with chapter by Moira F. Harris
248 pages, index and illustrations
1993, paperbound
ISBN 1-880654-01-6
Order Number: PP016
Price: $13.95
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What do Henry
David Thoreau, Mark Twain, and Oscar Wilde have in common? They,
and authors Edward Eggleston, Hamlin Garland, Bayard Taylor, Knut
Hamsun, Fredrika Bremer, Max O'Rell, and Frederick Marryat all
visited Minnesota between 1838 and 1890. Each of these authors,
and Minnesota's Nobel and Pulitzer prize winning author, Sinclair
Lewis, plumbed their Minnesota experiences in later prose and
fiction. Reprinted here are eleven essays by John T. Flanagan,
originally published in Minnesota History, the journal
of the Minnesota Historical Society, which describe the sojourn
of these authors and the literary results.
A nice --
but appropriate -- surprise here is Moira F. Harris' Minnesota
Community of the Book," which describes the recent flowering
of literary presses in the Twin Cities, a development found nowhere
else. -- John Mort, BOOKLIST
This
title was selected for the Minnesota Book Award as a 1994 Minnesota
Community of the Book Special Award Honoree. Visit www.thefriends.org/mnbookawards.htm
for more information.
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