This collection encompasses 50-plus years of interviews, readings, speeches, and reports on the vibrant literary scene in Minnesota. Not only home to giants F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis, our state has an array of incredible contemporary poets, novelists, and playwrights. Their words make up majority of this collection.
Repeatedly being named the “Most Literate City in the United States,” the Twin Cities has played host to numerous visiting national writers via book tours, festivals, and lectures. Many recordings of these are also included.
This project was funded by the National Historical Publications & Records Commission.
February 19, 1994 -
February 21, 1994 - MPR’s Cathy Wurzer interviews teacher and author Judy Henderson about recording and preserving the music of African American communities in Minnesota over the course of state’s history. Henderson compiled a book w/accompanying CD titled “African American Music in Minnesota.”
February 24, 1994 -
February 24, 1994 -
February 24, 1994 - Includes author living in Minneapolis
February 24, 1994 -
February 25, 1994 - Kelly Dwyer is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and of Oberlin College. She is the author of two children’s books as well as two novels, The Tracks of Angels and Self-Portrait with Ghosts. She is currently teaching creative writing at the University of Iowa and doing freelance editing while she finishes her third novel, a psychological ghost story set in Wisconsin.
February 25, 1994 - Kelly Dwyer is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and of Oberlin College. She is the author of two children’s books as well as two novels, The Tracks of Angels (Putnam’s) and Self-Portrait with Ghosts (Penguin). She is currently teaching creative writing at the University of Iowa and doing freelance editing while she finishes her third novel, a psychological ghost story set in Wisconsin.
March 2, 1994 -
March 3, 1994 - Author Isabel Allende speaks and answers questions before the Westminster Town Hall Forum.