Dec 18, 2022 | Drama, Indiana, Literary Landscapes, Volume 10
John Augustus Stone Main StreetMetamora, Indiana By Heather Chacón My first memory of Metamora, Indiana, is of being twelve and sitting on a wooden bench on the front porch of an old house-turned-shop with my friend, Holly. It is December. Above us hang several pieces...
May 25, 2022 | Author Houses, Indiana, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Novelists, Volume 8
Lew Wallace Grand Kankakee MarshPorter County, Indiana By Matthew A. Werner Indiana once had one of the greatest natural habitats in North America: the Grand Kankakee Marsh. Author Lew Wallace loved it so much, he kept a houseboat on its thruway, the Kankakee River....
Feb 22, 2022 | Author Houses, Indiana, Literary Landscapes, Novelists, Volume 7
Jean Shepherd 2907 Cleveland Street Hammond, Indiana By Samuel Love “Ours was not a genteel neighborhood,” Jean Shepherd wrote of Hohman, his fictional Northwest Indiana hometown. The opening story from his 1971 book Wanda Hickey’s Night Of Golden Memories and Other...
Oct 17, 2021 | Indiana, Literary Landscapes, Novelists, Volume 6
BOOTH TARKINGTON North Meridian StreetIndianapolis, Indiana By Wesley R. Bishop Booth Tarkington would still recognize his hometown of Indianapolis, Indiana, which he described in The Turmoil as “a midland city in the heart of fair open country, a dirty and wonderful...
Oct 5, 2021 | Indiana, Literary Landscapes, Novelists, Volume 3
KURT VONNEGUT The Kurt Vonnegut Museum & LibraryIndianapolis, IN By Laura Beadling Like many, I found and loved Kurt Vonnegut somewhere in my miserable teenage years. Slaughterhouse-Five is now one of my favorite novels to teach, whether in Great American Books or...
Sep 11, 2021 | Indiana, Literary Landscapes, Nonfiction, Schools, Volume 1, Writers of Color
Zitkála-Šá Earlham HallRichmond, Indiana By Leah Milne I was a Midwest transplant, born and raised on the East Coast. Before I left home, friends joked about flatland and cornfields and voiced concerns about my entering what they perceived to be a region of...
