Minnesota Books and Authors

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.

Jane Yolen, Children's Fiction Author
April 16, 1993 -
Voices from the Heartland - Mike Edgerly Reads From "The Wilderness Letter" by Wallace Stegner
April 16, 1993 - Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; If we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence, so that never again will Americans be free in their own country from the noise, the exhausts, the stinks of human and automotive waste. And so that never again can we have the chance to see ourselves single, separate, vertical and individual in the world, part of the environment of trees and rocks and soil, brother to the other animals, part of the natural world and competent to belong in it.
Phantom Poet lets out a primal scream about winter
April 16, 1993 - MPR’s Mike Edgerly interviews Phantom Poet, who shares his frustration with winter. Phantom Poet also reads a poem about spring.
Evelyn Fairbanks on "The Days of Rondo"
April 17, 1993 -
(GregAlan) Gregory Alan Williams on "A Gathering of Heroes"
April 17, 1993 - Actor (GregAlan) Gregory Alan Williams reflects on his experiences in the middle of the 1992 south Los Angeles riots.
Mary Cadogan, Author of "Women with Wings: Female Flyers in Fact and Fiction"
April 21, 1993 -
Katherine Wyse Goldman, Author of "My Mother Worked and I Turned Out Okay"
April 21, 1993 -
Judi Johnson, Co-Author of "I Can Cope: Staying Healthy with Cancer" with survivor C. Zarbock, 15 Year Review
April 21, 1993 -
Osha Gray Davidson, Iowa City Author of the Book "Under Fire: The NRA and the Battle for Gun Control"
April 22, 1993 -
Jewish Author and Journalist Rhoda Lewin with a Minnesota angle on the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
April 22, 1993 -

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Minnesota Books and Authors

Jane Yolen, Children's Fiction Author

Voices from the Heartland - Mike Edgerly Reads From "The Wilderness Letter" by Wallace Stegner

Phantom Poet lets out a primal scream about winter

Evelyn Fairbanks on "The Days of Rondo"

(GregAlan) Gregory Alan Williams on "A Gathering of Heroes"

Mary Cadogan, Author of "Women with Wings: Female Flyers in Fact and Fiction"

Katherine Wyse Goldman, Author of "My Mother Worked and I Turned Out Okay"

Judi Johnson, Co-Author of "I Can Cope: Staying Healthy with Cancer" with survivor C. Zarbock, 15 Year Review

Osha Gray Davidson, Iowa City Author of the Book "Under Fire: The NRA and the Battle for Gun Control"

Jewish Author and Journalist Rhoda Lewin with a Minnesota angle on the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum