![]() ![]() In 1922, A Daughter of the Middle Border was selected as the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography. Garland planned to answer many of the lingering questions his readers had expressed regarding his intention to gain a new daughter for his aging mother, accounting for his childhood friends, chronicling his father's reluctance to return to a new homestead at West Salem, Wisconsin, and many other queries, both literary and personal of his life. As such, A Daughter of the Middle Border was a continuation and not a repetition of A Son of the Middle Border. Pulitzer Prize-winner Hamlin Garland's captivating autobiography recounts his journey from a rural childhood to the study of literature and the sciences in Boston, his vital connections with such inspirations as William Dean Howell, and eventually his reclaimed sense of identity as a writer of the Midwest's beautiful yet hard land. By his own statement, he planned A Daughter of the Middle Border as a study of individuals and their relationships rather than one of settlements and migrations. A Daughter of the Middle Border presented a more personal, less epic, side to his life and covers a period roughly from 1893 until a few years after his father's death in 1914. A Daughter of the Middle Border is a continuation of Garland's life story chronicle that had concluded with A Son of the Middle Border.Ī Son of the Middle Border had chronicled Garland's life up to the stage where he moved into the Midwest from the East Coast in approximately 1893. Taylor (), also a Son of the Middle Border, by the author, Hamlin Garland, New York City, Nov. This index is based on the Gosset & Dunlap 1921 edition, reissued 1926, of Hamlin Garland's A Daughter of the Middle Border. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |