Clark, a Black socialist who had been collaborating with German radicals in Cincinnati since the days of abolitionism, was well prepared for relationship-building.
Peter H. Clark – St. Louis, Missouri
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Jim Harrison – Osceola County, Michigan
He believed that wandering the woods, studying birds, fishing, and a general curiosity for the natural world could “lift you out of your self-sunken mudbath, the violent mixture of hormones, injuries, melancholy, and dreams of a future you not only couldn’t touch but could scarcely see.”
Louis L’Amour – Jamestown, North Dakota
The most famous writer to ever come out of North Dakota never wrote anything that takes place there.
Richard Wright – Chicago, Illinois
Richard Wright house—a modest brownstone among “great sweeping corridors of concrete and ingrained prejudice.”
James Tate – Pittsburg, Kansas
James Tate Cow Creek CrossingPittsburg, Kansas By Leslie VonHolten Each James Tate poem presents itself like a welcoming trailhead — happy, sunshiney even. It is not until you are deep in the woods of it all before you sense the lurking weirdness. For example, in “The...
James Emanuel – Alliance, Nebraska
Two generations finding “my truth and my refuge” at the Alliance Public Library. #LiteraryLandscapes by Sean Stewart.
Langston Hughes – Lawrence, Kansas
Literary Landscapes: John Edgar Tidwell on Langston Hughes, the merry-go-round, and social segregation in Lawrence, KS
F. Scott Fitzgerald – St. Paul, Minnesota
599 Summit Ave.—Ross K. Tangedal on transitions, mediocrity, and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s St. Paul, glittering with the newness of life.
Wright Morris – Central City, Nebraska
Wright Morris Boyhood Home, Central City — Nathan Tye on “the ache of a nameless longing” that comes with inhabiting a worn-over world.
Edgar Lee Masters – Petersburg, Illinois
Ann Rutledge’s Grave—Jason Stacy on lost love, Edgar Lee Masters’s Spoon River Anthology, and exhuming the legends of Petersburg, Illinois.
William Gass – St. Louis, Missouri
Devin Thomas O’Shea on everyday hatreds, inside and outside William Gass’s The Tunnel.
Henry Bellamann – Fulton, Missouri
Henry Bellamann Brick District PlayhouseFulton, Missouri By Alex Dzurick The 1940 novel Kings Row once so offended residents of Fulton, Missouri, that you couldn’t find a copy on the shelves of the local library. You could, however, in the very same town, find a copy...