Although best known for The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains (1902), a novel often credited--if inaccurately--with being "the first Western," Owen Wister was in talent and predilection perhaps more a short-story writer than a novelist. He produced ove...

The importance of Owen Wister to the literature of the American West--and, by extension, to the development of American literature in the twentieth century--cannot be overstated. The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains (1902) lifted the frontier story ou...

Owen Wister is most often thought of, not inappropriately, as a writer about the American West. Indeed, his stories and books were extremely important in establishing in the 1890s and early twentieth century the ideas held by the majority of people about...

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Byline: Scott Ray Chicago native Jimmy John Liautaud, founder of Elgin-based Jimmy John's Gourmet Sandwich Shops, will deliver a commencement address to graduates of the College of Business Administration at the University of Illinois-Chicago in May. Liautaud, 39, opened his first sandwich...