Of herself, Betsy writes, 'After receiving a B.A. degree in English at Middlebury College in VT (and teaching English for three years at a private school in Massachusetts where, I kid you not, Uma Thurman was one of my students), I moved to Iowa...
Brian Falkner elaborates on how writing validates his existence. John Nkemngong Nkengasong titles his talk "The Naked Muse: Echoes from a Writer’s Soul" and conjures the influences that become the ingredients of his creative energy. Laila...
Madeleine Thien's talk is titled, "The Shattered Mirror: On the Migrant in Literature and Politics," and says that "my writing allows me to reflect a self that is often in-between places, that is restless and that is not satisfied." Gutierrez...
Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane, " Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper.
Originally for piano trio. Engraved throughout. "Dedies a Mr. B. G. Klingelhoefer." "Propriete de l'Auteur." The 2nd work omits opening theme of B. 474; all three works are transposed. Library's copy disbound from earlier collection bound...
This book was compiled by Mother Armstrong for Helen, October 1933. It has a label saying: "Purchased from Strawbridge & Clothier Philadelphia." In the rear is pasted in: Wit & "Wittles" by Phil Baker from Armour & Co., a little 16 page pamphlet...
Patricia Ballard Coffie writes and tells stories from home. Her family is Iowan for six generations, back to the 1840s. She has served as president of the Iowa Library Association and the Northlands Storytelling Network, a five-state organization....