Ink trails [[electronic resource] ] : Michigan's famous and forgotten authors / / Dave Dempsey and Jack Dempsey

• Autore: Dempsey Dave <1957->
• Pubblicazione: East Lansing, : Michigan State University Press, c2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (201 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.9/32774
• Soggetto topico: Authors, American - Homes and haunts - Michigan; American literature - Michigan
• Soggetto geografico: Michigan Intellectual life; Michigan In literature
• Altri autori: DempseyJack <1952->
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Ink trails
• ISBN: 1-62895-083-8; 1-60917-336-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779219703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II