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Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2013. Softcover in fine condition. xxxviii and 250 pages, 9 in. tall, index. Published in the "Writers In Their Own Time" series.
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- Title Garland in His Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associ
- Author Keith Newlin (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 292
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Iowa Press, Iowa City
- Date 2013
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9781609381622 / 1609381629
- Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.54 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Authors, American - 20th century, Authors, American - 19th century
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Paperback / softback. New. In his heyday, Hamlin Garland had a considerable reputation as a radical writer whose realistic stories and polemical essays agitating for a literature that accurately represented American life riled the nation's press. Born in poverty and raised on a series of frontier farms, Garland fled the rural Midwest in 1881 at age twenty-one. When his stories combining the radical economic theories of Henry George with realistic depictions of farm life appeared as Main-Travelled Roads in 1891, reviewers praised his method but were disturbed by the bleak subject matter. Four years (and eight books) later, his frank depiction of sexuality in his novel of the New Woman, Rose of Dutcher's Coolly (1895), made Garland even more controversial. After realising he couldn't make a living from such realistic works, Garland turned first to biography, then to critically panned but commercially popular romances set in the mountain west, and eventually to autobiography. In 1917 he…
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