Michigan literary luminaries : from Elmore Leonard to Robert Hayden
Publication Information
Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2015.
Physical Description
159 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Summary
"From Ernest Hemingway's rural adventures to the gritty fiction of Joyce Carol Oates, the landscape of the "Third Coast" has inspired generations of the nation's greatest storytellers. Michigan Literary Luminaries shines a spotlight on this rich heritage of the Great Lakes State. Discover how Saginaw greenhouses shaped the life of Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Theodore Roethke. Compare the common traits of Detroit crime writers like Elmore Leonard and Donald Goines. Learn how Dudley Randall revolutionized American literature by doing for poets what Motown Records did for musicians. Join author Anna Clark as she unveils Michigan's extraordinary written culture with a mixture of history, literary criticism and original reporting."--Back cover.
Contents
- Ernest Hemingway in the North Woods
- Harriette Simpson Arnow's mountain path
- Poets of the city: Robert Hayden and Dudley Randall
- The Detroit fiction of Joyce Carol Oates
- Jim Harrison's true north
- The waking: Theodore Roethke
- Action sequence: Elmore Leonard and Donald Goines
- What Philip Levine's work is
- Epilogue. How to build a literary culture.