{"product_id":"a-son-of-the-middle-border-paperback","title":"A Son of the Middle Border - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHamlin Garland\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA classic of American realism, A Son of the Middle Border (1917) is the true coming-of-age odyssey of a farm boy who--informed by the full brute force of a homesteaders' life on the vast unbroken prairie--would become a preeminent American writer of the early twentieth century. Pulitzer Prize winner Hamlin Garland's captivating autobiography recounts his journey from a rural childhood to the study of literature and the sciences in Boston, his vital connections with such inspirations as William Dean Howell, and eventually his reclaimed sense of identity as a writer of the Midwest's beautiful yet hard land. This definitive book placed Garland among such regionalist writers as Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, and Theodore Dreiser.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHamlin Garland (1860-1940), author of more than 40 books, is best known for his short story collection \u003ci\u003eMain-Travelled Roads\u003c\/i\u003e. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1918 and won the Pulitzer Prize for literature in 1922.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 384\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.5 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 15, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52151580950759,"sku":"9780873515658","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0793\/8329\/8279\/files\/cea31587a5474684312929d46ecc7c39.webp?v=1780425936","url":"https:\/\/skinnonsmooth.myshopify.com\/products\/a-son-of-the-middle-border-paperback","provider":"SkinnOnSmooth","version":"1.0","type":"link"}