Literary Luminaries of the Berkshires

Name: Literary Luminaries of the Berkshires | From Herman Melville to Patricia Highsmith
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From Herman Melville to Patricia Highsmith

Bernard A. Drew(Autor*in)

The History Press

Erschienen am 23. Januar 2019

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Intro
Front Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Foreword, by Ronald Latham
Introduction
I. LITERARY PIONEERS
First Newspaper Poet: "Philo Sappho"
First Book Poet: David Hitchcock
First Published Short Story Writer: William Cullen Bryant
Bryant's Wooden Dumbbells
First Published Novelist: Catharine Sedgwick
Sedgwick in the Coal Bush
II. THE AMERICAN LAKE DISTRICT
Early Authors
Holmes's Seven Happiest Summers
Longfellow "Forever-Never! Forever-Never!"
Where's Herman Melville's Piazza?
Nathaniel Hawthorne's Stockbridge Sojourn
Fanny Kemble Presided in Lenox
Harriet Beecher Stowe Failed to Amuse
Rose Terry Cooke and the Rejected Manuscript
III. ROBBIE BURNS, POIT A' TH' GANG WI' AW
IV. WRITERS AT THEIR PEAKS
Henry David Thoreau Scaled Mount Greylock and Mount Everett
Mrs. Fields and Miss Field Kept Pace on the Monument Mountain Picnic
The Quilldriving Goodales of Mount Washington
V. AND THE WORDS FLOW
Novelists
H.H. Ballard's Masonic Novel
Edith Wharton's Motoring Adventures
William Dean Howells's Quiet Summer
Walter Prichard Eaton Sprouted a Back-to-the-Country Movement
Finnish Maid Sally Salminen Wrote a Novel
Sigrid Undset, Monterey's Norwegian Fictionist
Cozzens and Lewis in Williamstown, Mailer in Stockbridge
VI. REAL FOLKS
Not the Last of the Mohicans
Berkshire Historical Figures in Literature
VII. GENRE FICTION
Mystery Writers Who Have Been Here
Mystery Writers Whose Characters Have Been Here
Tanglewood's Criminous Tunes
Boston PIs
The Devious Mind of Judson Philips
Ellis Parker Butler's Philo Gubb
Thriller and Suspense Writers
Patricia Highsmith Wanted to See the Body
Western Writers
Bill Gulick, Longhorn Wordsmith
Clay Perry and John L.E. Pell's Hell's Acres
Romance Writers
Bill Severn's Rangeland Romances
Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Writers
Anthony M. Rud's Eerie "Ooze"
Yule Like This
Shake, Shake, Shakers
VIII. FOR YOUNGER READERS
Boys' and Girls' Hardcover Series Books
The Bob's Hill Boys in Adams
Children's and Young Adult Books
Rachel Field's Hitty
IX. HUMORISTS AND CARTOONISTS
Josh Billings Milked His Audience
Mark Twain Had a Fright
Comic Strippers
Jack Cole's Zany Plastic Man
X. DRAMATISTS
XI. VERSIFIERS AND LYRICISTS
Poets and More Poets
Annie Kilmer's Tree-Hugging Son Joyce
Songwriters
James Weldon Johnson and the Negro National Anthem
The Merry Boltwood-Liddle Operettas
XII. BIBLIOPHILIC TREASURES-AND THE ODDEST BERKSHIRE NOVEL
Selected Bibliography
About the Author

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