Wisconsin Literary Luminaries
From Laura Ingalls Wilder to Ayad Akhtar
Published on 3. April 2017
Book
Hardback
130 pages
978-1-5402-1543-7 (ISBN)
Description
From the humble Ingalls family cabin in the woods to Ayad Akhtar s multicultural conflicts, the Badger State s stories and imagery have long inspired. Explore how Aldo Leopold and Lorine Niedecker drew on their close observations of the natural world. Contrast the distinct novels that Jane Hamilton and Larry Watson set on Wisconsin apple orchards. Delve into Thornton Wilder s enduringly popular Our Town and the wild fiction of Ellen Raskin and Cordwainer Smith, who wrote like no one else. Join Jim Higgins for a detailed account of ten notable Wisconsin writers that blends history, literary criticism and fact."
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Language
English
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
350 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5402-1543-7 (9781540215437)
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Person
Jim Higgins is arts and books editor for the Milwaukee Journal Sentineland a former pop music and jazz critic for the Milwaukee Sentinel. He isa two-time winner of Wisconsin Area Music Industry award for musicjournalist of the year and twice won the Sentinel staff-voted award forhumor writing. Like Andy Warhol, he is a native of Pittsburgh.