Great Plains Literature

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

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

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

A gripping history and account of black enslavement in Nebraska

How black Homesteaders' heralded America's Great Migration

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

The history of the greatest migration in the United States

A wide-angle look at one of the most significant groups of people in the country

Nebraskan Jeri Shute recounts tales from a bygone era.

A memoir set amidst the natural realm of the Great Plains.

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

A heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of Denver.