Hamlin Garland

A classic of American realism, A Son of the Middle Border is the true coming-of-age odyssey of a farm boy who -- informed by the full brute force of a homesteaders' life on the vast unbroken prairie -- would become a preeminent American writer of the early twentieth century. Pulitzer Prize winner Hamlin Garland's captivating autobiography recounts his journey from a rural childhood to the study of literature and the sciences in Boston, his vital connections...

This sequel to Garland's acclaimed autobiography, A Son of the Middle Border, continues his story as he sets out for Chicago and settles into a Bohemian encampment of artists and writers. There he meets Zulime Taft, an artist who captures his heart and eventually becomes his wife. The intensity of this romance is rivaled only by Garland's struggle between America's coastal elite and his heartland roots. A Daughter of the Middle Border won the Pulitzer...

The third of Hannibal Hamlin Garland's four-volume autobiography, the story of a son in a pioneer family who comes from the East to the Great Lakes and then to the South as a pathfinder for the Union Army.

"Author recounts his meetings with Edwin Booth, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Rudyard Kipling, Theodore Roosevelt as New York City Police Commissioner, and others." --