Literary Cincinnati The Missing Chapter [Hardcover]

The history of Cincinnati runs much deeper than the stories of hogs that once roamed downtown streets. In addition to hosting the nations first professional baseball team, the Tall Stacks river boating, and the May Festival, theres another side to the cityone that includes some of the most famous names and organizations in American letters.

Literary Cincinnatifills in this missing chapter, taking the reader on a joyous ride with some of the great literary personalities who have shaped life in the Queen City. Meet the young Samuel Clemens working in a local print shop, Fanny Trollope struggling to open her bizarre bazaar, Sinclair Lewis researchingBabbitt,hairdresser Eliza Potter telling the secrets of her rich clientele, and many more who defined the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Queen City.

For lovers of literature everywherebut especially in Cincinnatithis is a literary tour that will entertain, inform, and amuse.?

Literary Cincinnati?takes the reader on a joyous ride with some of the great literary personalities who have shaped life in the Queen City. Meet the young Samuel Clemens working in a local print shop, Fanny Trollope struggling to open her bizarre bazaar, Sinclair Lewis researching?Babbitt,?hairdresser Eliza Potter telling the secrets of her rich clientele, and many more who defined the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Queen City. For lovers of literature everywherebut especially in Cincinnatithis is a literary tour that will entertain, inform, and amuse.?

Dale Patrick Brown deftly raises Cincinnatis rich history of writers and writing from undeserved obscurity to its proper place in the C.V. of one of Americas great cities. The collection of authors with Cincinnati connections, from Harriet Beecher Stowe to John Berryman, will surprise and please all readers, but it will be especially gratifying to those who la