Keith Newlin, author of the biography Hamlin Garland: A Life, was recently interviewed on the Donna Seebo Show. The author discusses a variety of topics during the program, including how he discovered Hamlin Garland as well as the agricultural environment in which Garland grew up and then chose to leave for a writing career. Listen to the interview from the BBSRadio link at the bottom of the author’s web page:

http://people.uncw.edu/newlink/Garland_Bio_info.htm

Keith Newlin’s biography of Hamlin Garland is the first to be published in over 40 years. In recognition of his achievements in literature, Hamlin Garland (1860–1940) received four honorary doctorates and a Pulitzer Prize. Newlin traces the rise of this prairie farm boy with a half-formed ambition to write who then skyrocketed into international prominence before he was forty.

The University of Nebraska Press is the publisher of several Garland books, including Main-Travelled Roads, Boy Life on the Prairie, The Book of the American Indian, Rose of Dutcher’s Coolly, and Selected Letters of Hamlin Garland. Keith Newlin is also the editor of the new book, A Summer to Be: A Memoir by the Daughter of Hamlin Garland by Isabel Garland Lord, available through Whitston Publishing Company.