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 9, 1992 -
July 9, 1992 - An interview with Patricia Hampl who is giving the keynote at the Betsy-Tacy convenetion in Mankato, Minnesota. Maud Hart Lovelace wrote the series of books based on her own childhood in Mankato.
July 10, 1992 -
July 10, 1992 - The Betsy-Tacy convention in celebration of Mankato author Maud Hart Lovelace, offers fans of the series the chance to visit the fictional "Deep Valley Minnesota," based on Lovelace's hometown.
July 10, 1992 -
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July 13, 1992 -
July 14, 1992 - An interview with Mayme Sevander on how she came to write her book.
July 14, 1992 -