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Literary St. Louis: A Guide
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  • A unique, fun and informative approach to sightseeing
 Literary St. Louis: A Guide

Manufacturer: Missouri Historical Society Press
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Book Description

Filled with photographs, maps and illustrations, Literary St. Louis features fifty authors who lived and worked in St. Louis. Featured writers are Zoë Akins, Sally Benson, Henry Boernstein, Harold Brodkey, William Wells Brown, William Burroughs, Kate Chopin, Winston Churchill, Fannie Cook, Theodore Dreiser, T. S. Eliot, William Greenleaf Eliot, Charlotte Stearns Eliot, Stanley Elkin, Eugene Field, Kate Field, John Gardner, Martha Gellhorn, Ulysses S. Grant, Emily Hahn, William Harris, Chester Himes, Fannie Hurst, William Inge, Orrick Johns, Josephone Johnson, Charles Lindbergh, Elijah Lovejoy, Marshall McLuhan, Marianne Moore, Paul Elmer More, John Morris, John Neihardt, Howard Nemerov, Joseph Stanley Pennell, Joseph Pulitzer, William Marion Reedy, Irma Rombauer, Carl Schurz, Shirley Seifert, William T. Sherman, Peter Taylor, Sara Teasdale, Kay Thompson, Mark Twain, Constance Urdang, Tennessee Williams, Thomas Wolfe and Patience Worth.

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5 out of 5 stars A unique, fun and informative approach to sightseeing.......2001-02-08

Literary St. Louis: A Guide features fifty authors who lived and worked in St. Louis in a guidebook that is ideal for visitors or city residents wanting to explore the diverse literary history of this fascinating region. Enhanced throughout with photographs, maps, illustrations, and colorful anecdotes, the reader is treated to a St. Louis Literary Chronology, commentaries by literary luminaries ranging from Mark Twain to Tennessee Williams, a locations list, bibliography, and a very useful index. If you are planning a trip to St. Louis, Missouri, then William Gass and Lorin Cuoco's Literary St. Louis: A Guide offers a unique, fun and informative approach to sightseeing and historical surveys.

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