A Daughter of the Middle Border

Hamlin Garland's Pulitzer-winning memoir of prairie life, family, and hard-won artistic ambition, a warm, clear-eyed portrait of the American Midwest and the people who shaped it.

At a glance Hamlin Garland wrote about the American prairie with the unsentimental affection of… What it's about A sequel to his earlier A Son of the Middle Border, this volume… It follows his growth as a writer, his marriage, the care of aging parents, and the slow… The book won the Pulitzer Prize, and its strength lies in the tenderness and honesty…

A sequel to his earlier A Son of the Middle Border, this volume continues Garland's account of his own life and that of his family across the farming country of the upper Midwest.