Sep 17, 2021 | Author Houses, Literary Landscapes, Missouri, Novelists, Personal Essay, Volume 2
Kate Chopin 4232 McPherson AvenueSt. Louis, Missouri By Michaella A. Thornton The Central West End neighborhood where Kate Chopin spent her final year boasts some of the loveliest homes in St. Louis, Missouri. Dormers and cornices and stained glass, lush gardens...
Sep 17, 2021 | Author Houses, Literary Landscapes, Minnesota, Novelists, Volume 2
F. Scott Fitzgerald 599 Summit AvenueSt. Paul, Minnesota By Ross K. Tangedal In fall 2016, my wife, CJ, was four months pregnant, and we decided to visit the Minnesota State Fair at the insistence of my cousin Michael, a Minneapolis resident and state fair aficionado....
Sep 11, 2021 | Literary Landscapes, Novelists, Ohio, Volume 2
Helen Hooven Santmyer Greene County CourthouseXenia, Ohio By Jacob A. Bruggeman I first visited Xenia, Ohio, a small city in the state’s southwestern corner, on a hot May afternoon in 2018. Headed north from Cincinnati on Interstate 71, smoke started rising out from...
Sep 11, 2021 | Author Houses, Literary Landscapes, Nebraska, Novelists, Volume 1
Wright Morris Boyhood HomeCentral City, Nebraska By Nathan Tye For Wright Morris, home was both a physical place and emotional ache. Born in Central City, Nebraska, in 1910, Morris made his life elsewhere, but returned to the Platte Valley in his writing and...
Sep 11, 2021 | Graves, Illinois, Literary Landscapes, Poets, Volume 1
Edgar Lee Masters Ann Rutledge’s GravePetersburg, Illinois By Jason Stacy As a boy, I found it unsettling that Edgar Lee Masters anthologized the dead in an Illinois cemetery that never existed. Spoon River Anthology’s ghosts haunted the same rich Illinois soil I...
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...
