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.
July 1, 1994 -
July 1, 1994 - Leonid Gerchikov, director
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July 6, 1994 - This "marvelous memoir captures not only a time and place--growing up the daughter of Swedish immigrants in small-town Minnesota in the 1920s--but also the author's own captivating spirit. . . ." Paulette Bates Alden
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July 8, 1994 - Speaks of Geoffrey Holder and dancing with Olatunji at the 1964 New York World's Fair.