Hamlin Garland Society

The Hamlin Garland Society was formed at the American Literature Association conference in Baltimore on May 30, 1999. The Society exists to disseminate information about the life and works of American author Hamlin Garland (1860-1940), whose best-known books are Main-Travelled Roads (1891) and A Son of the Middle Border(1917).

Hamlin Garland, 1894

Garland Society News:

USC Libraries Digitizing 10,200 Hamlin Garland Letters
The USC Libraries’ collection features Garland’s letters from 3,000 correspondents, including Jane Addams, Willa Cather, Stephen Crane, William Dean Howells, Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and Edith Wharton. As such, it preserves the intellectual tissue of a vast, diverse social network—with Garland at the center—spanning 50 years of American life. The digitized letters can be found at http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15799coll81

Keith Newlin's Latest Garland Collection Available from Iowan Books

Prairie Visions, a new volume edited by Keith Newlin, reprints the first prose writings of Hamlin Garland, accompanied by 40 photographs by Jon Morris. This work illiterates the significance of place in Garland's imagination. In addition to a forward by Kurt Meyer and an introduction by Keith Newlin, the collection contains 6 sketches that Garland titled "Boy Life on the Prairie"--these early works first appeared in American Magazine (1888).

Donald Pizer's Garland Essays Collected in One Volume

The Significant Hamlin Garland gathers in one place ground-breaking essays written over a sixty-year period, beginning with essays based on Pizer's research as a graduate student in the Garland collection at the University of Southern California (USC). This volume should interest not only Garland scholars but also those wishing to read an edifying case study of literary scholarship.