Feb 22, 2022 | Literary Landscapes, Nature, Nonfiction, Novelists, Oklahoma, Volume 7
Meridel Le Sueur Miner’s Shack Picher, Oklahoma By Joe Schiller The shacks huddled haphazard and crosswise, scattered between the chat piles. Leaky roofs, knotholes, and loose-swinging doors let the dust in on any decent breeze. In Picher, Oklahoma, nobody built for...
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...
Feb 22, 2022 | Graves, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Nebraska, Novelists, Volume 7
Mari Sandoz Gravesite Sheridan County, Nebraska By C.J. Janovy It’s not easy to get to the final resting place of Nebraska writer Mari Sandoz, whose books, I’ll go ahead and argue, evoke one region of America as powerfully as William Faulkner’s portray another. Paying...
Oct 17, 2021 | Illinois, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Novelists, Schools, Volume 6
MARY HUNTER AUSTIN Blackburn CollegeCarlinville, Illinois By Karen Dillon and Naomi Crummey As professors in the English department at Blackburn College, we have always been aware of the legacy of the college’s most famed writer, Mary Hunter Austin, who was born in...
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 17, 2021 | Illinois, Literary Landscapes, Poets, Volume 6, Writers of Color
GWENDOLYN BROOKS South Side Community Art CenterChicago, Illinois By Angie Chatman 4724 South Evans Avenue was located a block south of Cottage Grove, one of the main thoroughfares through the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago. The three-flat building, now...
