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Biography of Hannibal Hamlin Garland
Name: Hannibal Hamlin Garland
Birth Date: September 14, 1860
Death Date: March 4, 1940
Place of Birth: West Salem, Wisconsin, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: author
Hannibal Hamlin Garland
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 American local-color writers began to depict the brutal, dehumanizing aspects of life, the work which most effectively expressed the hardships of farmers of the northern prairies was Hamlin Garland's Main Traveled Roads (1891).Garland was born near West Salem, Wis., on Sept. 14, 1860. Garland's father was an industrious farmer who moved his family from farm to farm in Wisconsin, Iowa, and South Dakota, hoping to wrest a better living from the fertile but unreliable fields. The successive homesteads--Garland later described them as "bare as boxes, dropped on the treeless plains"--provided little in the way of literature, but what little was available young Hamlin read with enthusiasm. His parents encouraged his literary interests and helped him get as …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…later years. He continued to write memoirs and accounts of psychic research until his death on March 4, 1940. Associated Works Main Traveled Roads Further Reading Jean Holloway, Hamlin Garland (1960), is a detailed and authoritative biography. Donald Pizer, Hamlin Garland's Early Work and Career (1960), is an excellent study. For a shorter treatment consult the chapter on Garland in H. Wayne Morgan, American Writers in Rebellion: From Mark Twain to Dreiser (1965). Larzer Ziff, The American 1890s: Life and Times of a Lost Generation (1966), places Garland in his period.Garland, Hamlin, Back-trailers from the middle borde, St. Clair Shores, Mich., Scholarly Press, 1974. Garland, Hamlin, Companions on the trail; a literary chronicl, St. Clair Shores, Mich., Scholarly Press 1974, 1931. Garland, Hamlin, A daughter of the middle borde, St. Clair Shores, Mich., Scholarly Press 1974, 1921. Garland, Hamlin, Roadside meeting, St. Clair Shores, Mich., Scholarly Press 1974, 1930. Garland, Hamlin, A son of the middle border, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 197.
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