Great Plains Literature

Poems recording the devastation unleashed on the Great Plains by the blizzard of January 12, 1888

Calling for a Blanket Dance

A novel in a series by Kent Haruf that unveils the immemorial truths about human beings

An essential reference tool on Nebraska

Award-winning stories of matter-of-fact cruelty and the hopeful fragility of humanity

Readers will delight in the story of Harriet as she searches for her father in the American West

How black Homesteaders' heralded America's Great Migration

A study of regional identity and a sense of place on the Great Plains

A searing coming-of-age memoir set against the arid landscape of rural North Dakota, where homosexuality “seems akin to a ticking bomb.”

A drama about the complicated relationships connecting the residents of a small-town farming community

A gripping Dust Bowl epic about five characters whose fates become entangled after a storm ravages their small Nebraskan town.

A memoir of Nebraska, and beyond.