'A Son of the Middle Border' (1917) is the odyssey of a farm boy who - informed by the full brute force of a homesteaders' life on the vast unbroken prairie - would become a preeminent American writer of the early twentieth century.Pulitzer Prize-winner Hamlin Garland's captivating autobiography recounts his journey from a rural childhood to the study of literature and the sciences in Boston, his vital connections with such inspirations as William Dean Howell, and eventually his reclaimed sense of identity as a writer of the Midwest's beautiful yet hard land. This definitive book placed...