Hamlin Garland

Jason Edwards

Novel depicting the struggles of a poor farmer attempting to escape agricultural life

About the author

Hamlin Garland
Hamlin Garland

Hamlin Garland wrote unflinching accounts of the hardships of Midwestern farm life, coining the term 'veritism' for his brand of unromantic realism. His autobiography A Son of the Middle Border won the Pulitzer Prize.

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