Person Detail: Hamlin Garland

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General Information:
Full Name: Hamlin Garland
Biography: (1860-1940) Writer, poet. Hamlin Garland spent his summers in Onteora Park from 1917 to the 1930s. He was born near West Salem, Wisconsin; lived in Manhattan. He grew up in the middle western farmlands, the region he later wrote about in verse, stories, and autobiography. His tales, collected as "Main-travelled Roads" (1891), "Prairie Folks" (1893), and "Wayside Courtships"(1897), were bitter pictures of the futility of farm lives. Besides realistic novels of the prairies - "A Little Norsk" (1892), and "Rose of Dutcher's Coolly" (1895), he wrote several propagandist novels, including "Jason Edwards: An Average Man" (1892), urging the single tax doctrine, and "A Spoil of Office" (1892), supporting the Populist party. Garland is perhaps best remembered for his two autobiographical works, "A Son of the Middle Border" (1917) and "A Daughter of the Middle Border" (1921, Pulitzer Prize). He was also the author of essays, a biography of President Grant (1898), and several books on spiritualism.
Author's Timeline:
1860		(Unknown) County Hannibal Hamlin Garland was born near West Salem, Wisconsin in 1860.
1891		(Unknown) County Main Traveled Roads Tales.
1892		(Unknown) County A Little Norsk Novel.
1892		(Unknown) County Jason Edwards: An Average Man Novel.
1892		(Unknown) County A Spoil of Office Novel.
1892		(Unknown) County A Member of the Third House Novel.
1893		(Unknown) County Prairie Folks Tales.
1894		(Unknown) County Crumbling Idols Novel.
1895		(Unknown) County Rose of Dutcher's Coolly Novel.
1897		(Unknown) County Wayside Courtships Tales.
1917		Greene County Garland spent his summers in Onteora Park from 1917 to the 1930s.
1917		(Unknown) County A Son Of The Middle Border Autobiographical work.
1921		(Unknown) County A Daughter Of The Middle Border Autobiographical work, Pulitzer Prize.
1940		(Unknown) County Hamlin Garland died in Hollywood, California in 1940.
?		New York County Garland lived in Manhattan, New York.