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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807861703321

Autore

Dempsey Dave <1957->

Titolo

Ink trails : Michigan's famous and forgotten authors / / Dave Dempsey and Jack Dempsey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

East Lansing, : Michigan State University Press, c2012

ISBN

1-62895-083-8

1-60917-336-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DempseyJack <1952->

Disciplina

810.9/32774

Soggetti

Authors, American - Homes and haunts - Michigan

American literature - Michigan

Michigan Intellectual life

Michigan In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction by Dave Dempsey; Introduction by Jack Dempsey; Southeast Michigan; George Matthew Adams: "Today's Talk"; Kenyon, Frost, and Miller: Arbor Days; Dudley Felker Randall: Urban Trailblazer; Central/South Central Michigan; William McKendree Carleton: Verse Virtuoso; James Oliver Curwood: Champion of God's Country; Marguerite de Angeli: Children Don't Forget; Holling Clancy Holling: Beyond Four Corners; Theodore Huebner Roethke: The Purity of Despair; Maritta Wolff: Sudden Fame; Southwest Michigan; Liberty Hyde Bailey: A Bountiful Life

Ringgold Wilmer Lardner: Life Is More Than a GameCarl Sandburg: Sand Man; Northern Lower Michigan; Charles Bruce Catton: America's Civil War Storyteller; Sara Gwendolyn Frostic: Spirit Indomitable; Eugene Ruggles: Songs for the Underdog; Upper Peninsula; Carroll Watson Rankin: Northern Light; John Donaldson Voelker: Great Character; Notes

Sommario/riassunto

Long revered as the birthplace of many of the nation's best-known authors, Michigan has also served as inspiration to countless others. In this entertaining and well-researched book-the first of its kind-the secrets, legends, and myths surrounding some of Michigan's literary luminaries are explored. Which Michigan poet inspired a state law



requiring teachers to assign at least one of his compositions to all students? Which young author emerged from the University of Michigan with a bestselling novel derided by some critics as "vulgar"? And from what Michigan city did Arthur Miller, Robert F