Carl Sandburg’s Connemara
Twenty-four miles south of Asheville in Flat Rock, NC, there once lived a Midwestern poet that wrote for the common man. His name was Carl Sandburg. H…
Tag: American Authors
The Lessons of Youth: Ernest Hemingway as a Young Man
by Francis McGovern The year 1999 was the Centennial of the birth of Ernest Miller Hemingway, a writer who was a legend during his own…
Graham Greene’s Vietnam – The Quiet American
By Literary Traveler The Quiet American by Graham Greene ought to be required reading for anyone planning a visit to Vietnam. For more than forty…
L. Frank Baum – The Man Behind The Curtain
By Linda McGovern Chances are you have seen the 1939 MGM movie, The Wizard of Oz, at one point or another in your lifetime. But…