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Spirit of Place: Making of an American Literary Landscape

Spirit of Place: Making of an American Literary Landscape

by Frederick Turner (Author)

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    Paperback 1993

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Synopsis

Award-winning author Frederick Turner examines the lives and careers of nine American authors, the locales they made famous, and the ways in which landscape played a role in the creation of their finest works. Spirit of Place is both a testament to the creative genius of nine of America's most important writers and an insightful investigation of the vital role of the physical landscape in the cultural development of the United States.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 384
 Edition: Reprinted edition
 Publisher: Island Press
Published: 30 Apr 1993
ISBN 10: 1559631805
ISBN 13: 9781559631808

Author Bio
Frederick Turner has written essays on topics as various as Indians, exploration, the American west, jazz, Paris, and food and wine for publications such as American Heritage, Smithsonian, The Nation, Wilderness, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, The International Herald Tribune, Blair and Ketchum's Country Journal, The Massachusetts Review, Southern Review, Men's Journal, Tin House, and Outside.
He received the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1976 and the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 1981. His other books include: Beyond Geography: The Western Spirit Against the Wilderness; Remembering Song: Encounters with the New Orleans Jazz Tradition; Of Chiles, Cacti, and Fighting Cocks: Notes on the American West; 1929: A Novel of the Jazz Age; In the Land of Temple Caves: Notes on Art and the Human Spirit; and The Go-Between: A Novel of the Kennedy Years