Hamlin Garland

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Hamlin Garland (1891)

Hannibal Hamlin Garland (born September 14, 1860 in West Salem , Wisconsin , † March 4, 1940 in Hollywood , California ) was an American writer . He is considered one of the most important naturalists in American literature.

Life

Garland spent his youth in the American Midwest , which appears as the backdrop for most of his short stories and novels. In his works he often campaigned for reforms, for example in A spoil of office (1892) for the ideas of the populist party . Essays on his naturalistic literary theory, which he called veritism , were published in Crumpling idols in 1894.

His autobiography A son of the Middle Border , published in 1917, was so successful that he published a sequel in 1922 with A daughter of the Middle Border . This work was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1922 in the biography or autobiography category. In 1898 he was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters .

Garland was married to the painter and sculptor Zulime Taft and had two daughters.

Works (selection)

  • Main traveled roads (1891)
  • A spoil of office (1892)
  • Prairie folks (1892)
  • Jason Edwards. An average man (1892)
  • Crumpling idols (1894)
  • Rose of Dutcher's Cooly (1895)
  • Boy life on the prairie (1899)
  • Cavanagh, forest ranger (1910)
  • A son of the Middle Border (1917)
  • A daughter of the Middle Border (1921)

literature

  • Jean Holloway: Hamlin Garland, a biography , University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas, 1960
  • Joseph B. McCullough: Hamlin Garland , Twayne Publishers, Boston, Mass., 1978
  • Charles LP Silet, Robert E. Welch, Richard Boudreau (Eds.): The critical reception of Hamlin Garland , Whitston, Troy, NY, 1985

Web links

Commons : Hamlin Garland  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of the award winners
  2. ↑ Members: Hamlin Garland. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed March 30, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Garland, Hamlin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Garland, Hannibal Hamlin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH West Salem , Wisconsin
DATE OF DEATH March 4th 1940
Place of death Hollywood , California