Hannibal Hamlin Garland was an American novelist, poet, essayist, short story writer, Georgist, and psychical researcher.
13 Facts About Hamlin Garland
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Hamlin Garland is best known for his fiction involving hard-working Midwestern farmers.
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Hannibal Hamlin Garland was born on a farm near West Salem, Wisconsin, on September 14,1860, the second of four children of Richard Garland of Maine and Charlotte Isabelle McClintock.
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Hamlin Garland lived on various Midwestern farms throughout his young life, but settled in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1884 to pursue a career in writing.
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Hamlin Garland serialized a biography of Ulysses S Grant in McClure's Magazine before publishing it as a book in 1898.
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Hamlin Garland lived on a farm between Osage, and St Ansgar, Iowa for quite some time.
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In 1893, Hamlin Garland moved to Chicago, where he lived at 6427 South Greenwood Avenue in the Woodlawn neighborhood.
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Hamlin Garland is considered "a significant figure in the Chicago Literary Movement" and "one of Chicago's most important authors".
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In Illinois, Hamlin Garland married Zulime Taft, the sister of sculptor Lorado Taft, and began working as a teacher and a lecturer.
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The book's success prompted a sequel, A Daughter of the Middle Border, for which Hamlin Garland won the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
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Hamlin Garland became quite well known during his lifetime and had many friends in literary circles.
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Hamlin Garland was made a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1918.
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Hamlin Garland died at age 79, at his home in Hollywood on March 4,1940.