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 (September 14, 1860 – March 4, 1940), whose best-known books are Main-Travelled Roads (1891) and A Son of the Middle Border(1917).
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Garland Society News:

Hamlin Garland and the Homestead Act of 1862
On June 13, 2021, the Homestead National Historic Park in Beatrice, Nebraska hosted a panel discussion that focused on authors who lived through and wrote about the homesteading experience. Panel members represented six authors: Phoebe May Hopper, Bess Streeter Aldrich, Willa Cather, Mari Sandoz, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and Hamlin Garland. Kurt Meyer discussed Garland's experiences. and a version of Kurt's presentation is attached.

"Hamlin Garland’s Mad Quest for the ‘Buried Crosses’"
Abby Gibson, a graduate student at the University of Southern California, chronicles Garland's mad, mystical search for buried crosses in a fascinating article for Alta Journal, August 2, 2021. 
https://www.altaonline.com/dispatches/a36550052/hamlin-garland-quest-buried-crosses/​

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. ​
​Contact Garland Society: Kurt Meyer, Society President, meyer6601@aol.com
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**We wish to thank Keith Newlin who created the original Garland Society website, ensuring that the Hamlin Garland Society had a permanent home,