Volume 38, Number 15 · September 26, 1991
Wind from the Prairie
By Elizabeth Hardwick
BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ESSAY
Carl Sandburg: A Biography
by Penelope Niven
Scribner's, 843 pp., $35.00
Vachel Lindsay: A Poet in America
by Edgar Lee Masters
Biblo and Tannen, 392 pp., $20.00
Lincoln: The Man
by Edgar Lee Masters
Dodd, Mead (out of print)
The West-Going Heart: A Life of Vachel Lindsay
by Eleanor Ruggles
Norton (out of print)
The Art of the Moving Picture
by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, Introduction by Stanley Kauffmann
American Film Institute (out of print)
Around World War I. writers from the American Middle Western states began to appear on the literary scene. In fiction, there were Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis, and Sherwood Anderson, and also the three, known as the 'Prairie Poets,' Carl Sandburg, Vachel Lindsay, and Edgar Lee Masters.
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