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.
October 3, 1981 -
October 7, 1981 - 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature winner Czeslaw Milosz, born in Poland but now living and teaching in the United States, talks about his poetry, the United States, his native country of Poland, and writing in this interview with MPR's Nancy Fushan.
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