Like the main-travelled road of life it is traversed by many classes of people, but the poor and the weary predominate.
Hamlin Garland Quotes
There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers’ wives.
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| Birth: | 14th September, 1860 |
| Death: | 4th March, 1940 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Author, Essayist, Novelist, Poet, Researcher, Writer |
About
Hannibal Hamlin Garland was born near West Salem, Wisconsin, USA. He was an American novelist, poet, essayist, short story writer and parapsychology researcher. He is best known for his fiction involving hard-working Midwestern farmers. He wrote several books include: Main-Travelled Roads( short stories), Jason Edwards: An Average Man(novel), A Member of the Third House(novel), A Spoil of Office, Crumbling Idols(essays), Rose of Dutcher's Coolly(novel), The Spirit of Sweetwater, Prairie Folks(short stories), Wayside Courtships(short stories), Ulysses S. Grant: His Life and Character (biography), Her Mountain Lover, A Son of the Middle Border(memoir), A Daughter of the Middle Border(biography-won the 1922 Pulitzer Prize), A Pioneer Mother, Afternoon Neighbors, Forty Years of Psychic Research, Lost in a Norther(poem), Boyish Sleep(poem), and Indian Summer (poem).
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