Literature

Featured in 40 entries are three authors of best selling novels, six of books for children and parents, five of books that were basis for films, five of Western novels and biographies, two folklorists, a classical scholar, three Pulitzer Prize winners, originator of Columbia Encyclopedia in 1935, editor of second largest university press in nation, an authority on women authors, co-founders of Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial, of one of three oldest continuously published scholarly magazines in nation, and of English curriculum for public schools nationwide, and creator of mystery form “whodunin?” and two selected as U.S. poet laureate.

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