August Derleth

August Derleth

AmericanFebruary 24, 1909 – July 4, 1971Regional Fiction

August Derleth was a prolific Wisconsin regionalist who created a Sac Prairie Saga of over fifty works depicting the life of a small Wisconsin community across generations. His ambition to document a region rivaled Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha project.

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