Son of the Middle Border

A classic of American realism, "A Son of the Middle Border" (1917) is the true coming-of-age odyssey of a farm boy who--informed by the full brute force of a homesteaders' life on the vast unbroken prairie--would become a preeminent American writer of the early twentieth century. Pulitzer Prize-winner Hamlin Garland's captivating autobiography recounts his journey from a rural childhood to the study of literature and the sciences in Boston, his vital connections with such inspirations as William Dean Howell, and eventually his reclaimed sense of identity as a writer of the Midwest's beautiful yet hard land. This definitive book placed Garland among such regionalist writers as Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, and Theodore Dreiser.Garland, Hamlin is the author of 'Son of the Middle Border ', published 2007 under ISBN 9780873515658 and ISBN 087351565X.