Great Plains Literature

The Pulitzer Prize-winning Iowa twentieth century family farm epic based on Shakespeare’s “King Lear”

A beautifully illustrated memoir of Nebraska farm life.

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

A gripping history and account of black enslavement in Nebraska

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.”

The autobiography of the Willa Cather Foundation's first leader and visionary.

Mellen Press, NYC: 1989
Hardbound

ISBN: 0889462186
Dimensions: 9.4 × 6.5 × 0.75 in
Weight: 1.2 lb

An essential reference tool on Nebraska

Chronicle of a devastating flood in Nebraska on May 31, 1935.

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

Homesteader Isaac Beckley Werner of Stafford County, Kansas and the Populist movement

An exploration of influential literature of the Plains region in both the United States and Canada