During a productive and varied literary career Hamlin Garland published almost fifty volumes. But his reputation rests principally on his short fiction written before 1895, and particularly on his volume of short stories Main-Travelled Roads (1891) and...

Hamlin Garland is now known almost solely for his short middle-border fiction written before 1895, particularly for his provocative and innovative collection of short stories, Main-Travelled Roads: Six Mississippi Valley Stories (1891), and for his...

Hamlin Garland wrote over forty books, two of which remain important today. One of these is Main-Travelled Roads (1891), realistic short stories about midwestern farmers, while the other is Garland's autobiography, A Son of the Middle Border (1917), a...

In spite of his long and productive career Hamlin Garland is a neglected literary figure. With the exception of his early collection of short stories, Main-Travelled Roads (1891), and his autobiographical A Son of the Middle Border (1917), most of his...

Hannibal Hamlin Garland (1860-1940), American author, augmented local-color writing by the new naturalistic techniques that combined realism with a sense of the individual's overwhelming struggle against a hostile environment. In the late 1880s, when...