Midland humor
Subtitle: a harvest of fun and folklore.
Publisher: Current Books
Published: 1947
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 446
Subjects: American wit and humor.
Description: Contains contributions by George Ade, Nelson Algren, Gwendolyn Brooks, Peter De Vries, Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner, Carl Sandburg, Booth Tarkington, James Thurber, Herman Fetzer, Joseph M. Field, Caroline Kirkland, John S. Robb, Alphonso Wetmore, Robert Jones Burdette, Finley Peter Dunne, Eugene Field, John Hay, E.W. Howe, T.A. McNeal, Julia A. Moore, Petroleum V. Nasby (David Ross Locke), George W. Peck, M. Quad (Charles Bertrand Lewis), Opie Read, James Whitcomb Riley, Mark Twain, Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne), Ten Eyck White, Jack Balch, Frank Marshall Davis, Leonard Dubkin, C.L. Edson, Amos R. Harlin, Sydney J. Harris, Kin Hubbard (Abe Martin), Ben Krit, Della T. Lutes, Ruth McKenney, Kenneth W. Porter, Keith Preston, Vance Randolph, Max Shulman, Vincent Starrett, Bert Leston Taylor, Raymond Weeks, Wil Wharton, Wendell Wilcox, Charles Morrow Wilson, Howard Wolf, and Robert M. Yoder.
Notes: Includes biobibliographical sketches of the authors.