Ink trails : Michigan's famous and forgotten authors / / Dave Dempsey and Jack Dempsey
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| Autore: |
Dempsey Dave <1957->
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| Titolo: |
Ink trails : Michigan's famous and forgotten authors / / Dave Dempsey and Jack Dempsey
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| Pubblicazione: | East Lansing, : Michigan State University Press, c2012 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| 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->
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| 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.: | 9910807861703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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