hamlin garland biography

Twenty-four years ago he purchased the old homestead near West Salem, La Crosse County, and to this he returns each year for a part of the summer. Donald Pizer, Hamlin Garland's Early Work and Career (1960), is an excellent study. Hamlin Garland was born at West Salem in the beautiful La Crosse valley, September 16, 1860, and lived there until he was eight years old. An author and poet who wrote about the lives of Midwestern farmers, he is especially known for works such as Main-Travelled Roads (1891), Prairie Folks (1892), and Jason Edwards: An Average Man (1892). "The Flood of Remembrance and the Stream of Time: Hamlin Garland… Print. Western American Literature 7 (1972): 145-47. For a shorter treatment consult the chapter on Garland in H. Wayne Morgan, American Writers in Rebellion: From Mark Twain to Dreiser (1965). Hamlin Garland’s Main-Travelled Roads is recognized as one of the early landmarks of American literary realism. Jean Holloway, Hamlin Garland (1960), is a detailed and authoritative biography. Jacobson, Marcia. Donald Pizer, Hamlin Garland's Early Work and Career (1960), is an excellent study. Biography. For a shorter treatment consult the chapter on Garland in H. Wayne Morgan, American Writers in Rebellion: From Mark Twain to Dreiser (1965). Irsfeld, John H. "The Use of Military Language in Hamlin Garland's 'the Return of a Private'." Hamlin Garland: A Biography. Jean Holloway, Hamlin Garland (1960), is a detailed and authoritative biography.

Austin, TX: U of Texas P, 1960. "—Philip Joseph, Western American Literature Hamlin Garland was born in West Salem, WI on September 14, 1860.

Hamlin Garland’s Main-Travelled Roads is recognized as one of the early landmarks of American literary realism.

Print. [Hamlin Garland: A Life] is a biography that will serve as a resource to Garland scholars and as a detailed portrait of artistic networks spanning the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century.