A Journey Through Literary America
Contributors: Photography by Tamra L. Dempsey
Publisher: Val de Grâce Books
Published: October 2009
Language: eng
Format: Vertical
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780981742519
First sentence: In the beginning, there were the woods.
Description: This 304 page coffee table book takes a look at 26 of America’s great authors and the places that inspired them. Unique to this book of literary biography is the element of the photograph. With over 140 photographs throughout, the images add mood and dimension to the writing – and they are often shockingly close to what the featured authors described in their own words. Lushly illustrated, and beautifully designed, the book is as much of a pleasure to look at as it is to read.
Table of contents: title: Beginnings; pagenum: 4
title: Washington Irving & James Fenimore Cooper • The Catskills, New York; title: New England: Her Early Leafs; pagenum: 18
title: Ralph Waldo Emerson & Henry David Thoreau • Concord, Massachusetts; pagenum: 32
title: Nathaniel Hawthorne • Concord, Salem & the Berkshires, Massachusetts; pagenum: 42
title: Herman Melville • New Bedford & the Berkshires, Massachusetts; pagenum: 52
title: A Later Flowering: Robert Frost • Vermont & New Hampshire; title: Reeling Westward: From the Pioneer Spirit to the “Turn of the World”; pagenum: 70
title: Willa Cather • Red Cloud, Nebraska; pagenum: 78
title: Wallace Stegner • Leadville, Colorado • New Almaden, California & the West; pagenum: 90
title: John Steinbeck • Monterey, Pacific Grove & Salinas, California; pagenum: 102
title: Robinson Jeffers • Carmel & Big Sur, California; title: Not Forgotten: Yoknapatawpha to Altamont; pagenum: 114
title: William Faulkner • Oxford, Mississippi; pagenum: 124
title: Thomas Wolfe • Asheville, North Carolina; title: Main Streets: Gopher Prairie, Minnesota to Winesburg, Ohio; pagenum: 136
title: Sinclair Lewis • Sauk Centre, Minnesota; pagenum: 148
title: Sherwood Anderson • Clyde, Ohio; title: The Inner Migration: What Happens to a Dream; pagenum: 158
title: Langston Hughes • Harlem, New York; pagenum: 172
title: Toni Morrison • Lorain, Ohio; pagenum: 180
title: Rita Dove • Akron, Ohio; title: Twentieth Century Excursions; pagenum: 190
title: Henry Miller • Brooklyn, New York; pagenum: 200
title: Ernest Hemingway • Horton Bay & Walloon Lake, Michigan; pagenum: 212
title: Flannery O’Connor • Milledgeville, Georgia; pagenum: 222
title: John Updike • Shillington, Plowville & Reading, Pennsylvania; pagenum: 236
title: Philip Roth • Newark & Mendham, New Jersey; pagenum: 248
title: Raymond Carver • Yakima & Port Angeles, Washington; pagenum: 259
title: E. Annie Proulx • Wyoming; pagenum: 266
title: Richard Ford • Princeton, Hopewell, Pennington & the Shore, New Jersey; pagenum: xi
title: Appendix | Map; pagenum: xv
title: Acknowledgments; pagenum: xvii
title: Notes; pagenum: xxiii
title: Bibliography