This collection encompasses 50-plus years of interviews, readings, speeches, and reports on the vibrant literary scene in Minnesota. Not only home to giants F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis, our state has an array of incredible contemporary poets, novelists and playwrights. Their words make up majority of this collection.
Repeatedly being named the “Most Literate City in the United States,” the Twin Cities has played host to numerous visiting national writers via book tours, festivals, and lectures. Many recordings of these are also included.
This project was funded by the National Historical Publications & Records Commission.
October 24, 1979 -
October 24, 1979 -
October 24, 1979 - Writer William Burroughs, credited by some as the father of the beat generation, talks with Nancy Fushan. (Re-broadcast of 1978 author profile)
October 26, 1979 -
October 31, 1979 -
November 1, 1979 - MPR’s Nancy Fushan interviews director Scott Rubsam, playwright Lance Belleville, and actor Jim Lawless about the COMPAS-St. Paul History Theater production "James J. Hill: The Man Who Bought Minneapolis." The play will be performed at the Landmark Center. James J. Hill was a powerful railroad and grain mill magnate, and famous resident of St. Paul.
November 2, 1979 -
November 3, 1979 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author and widow of Charles Lindbergh, speaks at the Minnesota Historical Society's 130th annual meeting on fitting memorials for great persons.
November 7, 1979 -
November 9, 1979 -