When the short story collection Main-Travelled Roads was published 1891, reviewers praised its realism but were disturbed by its bleak subject—the pathos and struggles of hardworking Midwestern farmers. While Garland’s stories depict the hard, unromantic truth of life on the plains, he also portrays exhilarating moments and the strength of individual will.
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Hannibal Hamlin Garland (1860–1940) was an American writer best remembered for his popular novels and memoirs depicting the hard life of the Midwestern farmer, many informed by his own Midwestern upbringing. His autobiographical work, A Daughter of the Middle Border, won the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for biography.
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