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Hamlin Garland - A Life (Hardcover)
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Hamlin Garland - A Life (Hardcover)
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In recognition of his achievements in literature, Hamlin Garland
(1860-1940) received four honorary doctorates and a Pulitzer Prize.
Keith Newlin traces the rise of this prairie farm boy with a
half-formed ambition to write who then skyrocketed into
international prominence before he was forty. His life is a story
of ironic contradictions: the radical whose early achievement
thrust him to the forefront of literary innovation but whose
evolutionary aesthetic principles could not themselves adapt to
changing conditions; the self-styled "veritist" whose credo
demanded that he verify every fact but whose credulity led him to
spend a lifetime seeking to confirm the existence of spirits. His
need for recognition caused him to cultivate rewarding friendships
with the leaders of literary culture, yet even when he attained
that recognition, it was never enough, and his self-doubt caused
him fits of black despair. The first and only other biography of
Hamlin Garland was published more than forty years ago; since then,
letters, manuscripts, and family memoirs have surfaced to provide,
along with changing literary scholarship, a more evaluative and
critical interpretation of Garland's life and times." Hamlin
Garland: A Life" is an exploration of Garland's contributions to
American literary culture and places his work within the artistic
context of its time.
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