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William Allen White, Diane Dufva Quantic
William Allen White, Diane Dufva Quantic
Western Writers Series Digital Editions
William Allen White was inevitable in Kansas: someone who epitomized the central nature of the region was bound to appear. White s career in journalism, politics, and literature reflects the radical changes in the American West between the Civil War and World War II. At the same time, his life reflects mainstream American values. Centrifugal forces that originated in his acquaintance with state and national people and events drew him East, but centripetal forces drew him back to Emporia: the newspaper business, his family, his genuine commitment to the town itself. Although his attempts to balance these varied interests produced …
Ann Zwinger, Peter Wild
Ann Zwinger, Peter Wild
Western Writers Series Digital Editions
At Constant Friendship, the Zwingers' hideaway in the Colorado Rockies, daughter Sara lounges on the raft in the middle of the lake. In the meadow, her sister Jane chases butterflies, while the family’s German shepherd, Graf, romps at her heels. Susan is off hiking in the surrounding forest. Meanwhile, the girls' father, a pilot retired from the Air Force, manfully hammers away on his latest building project. Nearby, his wife sits at her ease, sketching a plant she brought back from this morning’s stroll, then rushes to the spotting scope to identify a strange bird circling the pines.
Peggy Pond Church, Shelley Armitage
Peggy Pond Church, Shelley Armitage
Western Writers Series Digital Editions
Peggy Pond Church wrote one of the best-selling nonfiction books in University of New Mexico Press history, The House at Otowi Bridge (1959). Nevertheless, she was chiefly a poet. Critics of Southwestern and Western letters generally have praised her exceptional talents, citing not only her steady maturing ear, but her polished forms and regional voice. She published eight volumes of poetry during her life and was honored in 1984 with the New Mexico Governor's Award for Literature. Fifty years before, Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant prophesied in The Saturday Review of Literature that here was “a pristine young poetess . . . …
Ishmael Reed, Jay Boyer
Ishmael Reed, Jay Boyer
Western Writers Series Digital Editions
Ishmael Reed's beginnings as a writer can be traced to the East, to New York and New Jersey. Born in 1938, he attended the University of Buffalo. Then, after supporting himself through a series of temporary jobs, he found an apartment in New York City’s Hell's Kitchen district, went to work for the Newark Advance, set about writing his first novel, The Free-Lance Pallbearers, and published the first of his poetry in national anthologies.