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Creating a Hoosier Self-Portrait: The Federal Writers' Project in Indiana, 1935-1942

Creating a Hoosier Self-Portrait: The Federal Writers' Project in Indiana, 1935-1942

Blakey, George T.

Hardcover

General World HistoryRegional: Midwest

ISBN10: 0253345693
ISBN13: 9780253345691
Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr
Published: Apr 20 2005
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.40
Height: 0.95 Width: 6.50 Depth: 9.56
Language: English

From 1935 to 1942, the Indiana office of the Federal Writers' Program hired unemployed writers as field workers to create a portrait in words of the land, the people, and the culture of the Hoosier state. This book tells the story of the project and its valuable legacy. Beginning work under the guidance of Ross Lockridge, whose son would later burst onto the American literary scene with his novel Raintree County, the group would eventually produce Indiana: A Guide to the Hoosier State, Hoosier Tall Stories, and other publications. Though many projects were never brought to completion, the Program's work remains a useful and rarely tapped storehouse of information on the history and culture of the state.

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