No castles on Main Street
by Kraft, Stephanie frey50
Published by : Rand McNally & Company (Chicago, Illinois) , 1979 Physical details: 239 p.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 800 - 899 | 810.9 Kra (Browse shelf) | Available | 49277 |
Includes Biography
H.L. Mencken and the Hollins Street house -- Hawthorne and the old manse -- Carl Sandburg and the railroad town -- Emily Dickinson and the homestead -- Hemingway and the island in the sun -- Thomas Wolfe, the angel, and the boardinghouse -- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: Newcomer at Cross Creek -- John Steinbeck: Salinas and the long valley -- Willa Cather, the prairie, and Red Cloud -- Mark Twain: Connecticut Yankee at home -- Emerson in Concord -- Edgar Allan Poe: Empty shrines on the Eastern seaboard -- Edith Wharton "at home": Mount in Lenox, Massachusetts -- William Faulkner and Rowan Oak -- Sinclair Lewis: No castles on Main street -- Laura Ingalls Wilder: House at the end of the road -- Walt Whitman and Mickle street house -- Sherwood Anderson's vanishing winesburg -- Flannery O'Connor: Redemption in Slash Pine country -- Paul Laurence Dunbar: Singer in Dayton -- Riley old home, Greenfield, Indiana -- Eugene field house, St. Louis -- George Washington Cable in New Orleans and Northampton -- Edgar Lee Masters and the Spoon River country -- Ellen Glasgow in Richmond -- F. Scott Fitzgerald in St. Paul: On the threshold of the jazz age -- Jack London and wolf house -- O. Henry in Austin: Cops, robbers and the rolling stone -- Owen Wister and the wild west -- Robinson Jeffers and Tor house -- Directory of authors' homes -- Notes on sources.