Writings
Ohio and Ohio Valley writers and writing, literary and cultural history with occasional ventures into the greater Midwest and Upper South.
Famous Last Words
I don’t see anything in this to convince me you can write either narrative or fiction.” –Harper’s editor Ripley Hitchcock to Zane Grey regarding Grey’s book The Last of the Plainsmen.
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Zane Grey and the Western Dream
Zane Grey. The name itself can conjure images of dusty arroyos, gunfighter villains, square-jawed cowboys and frontier heroines. And yet one of the most prolific and financially successful American writers of western novels—in fact, one of the creators of the western as we know it—was born in Zanesville, Ohio on January 31, 1872. His works…
CONTINUE READINGPolar Vortex, Winesburg, Ohio-style
“By nine o’ clock of that evening snow lay deep in the streets and the weather had become bitter cold. It was difficult to walk about. The stores were dark and the people had crawled away to their houses. The evening train from Cleveland was very late but nobody was interested in its arrival. By…
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Louis Bromfield: The Land and The Man Were One
December 27 marks the birthday of Louis Bromfield, renowned Ohio author and conservationist. Louis Bromfield was born near Mansfield, Ohio on December 27, 1896. In his life he was not only a successful novelist, but also an agrarian spokesman who owned Malabar Farm, an experimental farm in Richland County now part of the Ohio park…
CONTINUE READINGJanuary 1, 1864: Albion Tourgee is discharged from the Union Army
January 1, 1864: Albion Tourgee is discharged from the Union Army. Albion Tourgee is one Ohio writer who deserves to be better known. Tourgee was a novelist, lawyer, soldier, and judge who made much of his life’s work the advancement of black Americans. Tourgee went south after the Civil War and was one of the…
CONTINUE READINGHappy Birthday to Louis Bromfield
This past Friday–December 27, 2013–marks the birthday of Louis Bromfield, Ohio author and conservationist. Bromfield was born near Mansfield, Ohio on December 27, 1896. Stay tuned for a post on this important Ohio author and conservationist!
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Paul Laurence Dunbar: Ohio writer and man of letters
Paul Laurence Dunbar is one of the most prominent and well-known Ohio authors. He remains significant for his accomplishments in both formal and dialect verse, and is a towering presence in the history of African-American writing. Although best known for his poetry, Dunbar also wrote novels, short stories, libretti, and plays. Paul Laurence Dunbar was…
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