This sequel to Garland's acclaimed autobiography, "A Son of the Middle Border, "continues his story as he sets out for Chicago and settles into a Bohemian encampment of artists and writers. There he meets Zulime Taft, an artist who captures his heart and eventually becomes his wife. The intensity of this romance is rivaled only by Garland's struggle between America's coastal elite and his heartland roots. "A Daughter of the Middle Border" won the Pulitzer Prize in 1922, forever securing his place in the literary canon.

This account is the true coming-of-age odyssey of a farm boy who - informed by the full brute force of a homesteader's life on the vast unbroken prairie - would become a pre-eminent American writer of the early 20th century. Pulitzer Prize winner Hamlin Garland recounts in this captivating autobiography his journey from a rural childhood to the study of literature and the sciences in Boston, his vital connections with such inspirations as William Howells and eventually his reclaimed sense of identity as a writer of the Midwest's beautiful yet hard land.

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