Iowa: A Literary Landscape 


Adult Books I-R  
Introductory Note: Citations feature first edition of the work, with later editions asterisked chronologically. Self published works are noted within the citation. Notes are added for pseudonyms, major fiction awards, setting locations/timeframes, and alternative titles.

NOTE: Only stories set in Iowa are included in this bibliography.  Authors may have other works not included here.


Iola, Kate. Dead Stock. Hartley, IA: Hammersmark Books, 2006.
SETTING NOTE: Bioterrorism expert battles Iowa hoof-and-mouth disease outbreak

Irving, John. The Water-Method Man. New York: Random House, 1972.
*New York: Avon Books, 1973, 1972.
*New York: Pocket Books, 1978, 1972.
*London: Corgi Books, 1980.
*London: Corgi Books, 1982, 1972.
*New York: Random House, 1984, 1972.
*London: Black Swan, 1986, 1972.
*New York: Ballantine Books, 1990, 1972.
*New York: Ballantine Books, 1997, 1972.
SETTING NOTE: University of Iowa and Iowa City in 1960s

Jackson, Charles Tenney. The Midlanders. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1912.
SETTING NOTE: Pioneer era in fictional Rome, Iowa

Jackson, Donald Dean. Archer Pilgrim. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1942.
SETTING NOTE: Iowa farm, possibly in area of Glenwood, Iowa (Mills County)

Jasper, Michael. The Wannoshay Cycle. Waterville, ME: Five Star, 2008.
SETTING NOTE: Earth's first alien arrival occurs in Iowa

Jeffery, Ransom, and John Keeble. Mine. New York : Grossman Publishers, 1974.
*New York: Warner, 1975, 1974.
SETTING NOTE: Iowa City and University of Iowa area in 1970s

Jerome, Amalie Hofer. My Century, the Story of Andreas Franz Hofer. Boston: B. Humphries, 1937.

Johnson, Denis. Jesus' Son: Stories. New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1992.
*London: Faber & Faber, 1992.
*New York: Harper Perennial, 1993, 1992.
*London: Faber & Faber, 1994, 1992.
SETTING NOTE: Journey from Iowa City to Arizona in early 1970s

Jones, David Myles. "First Cousins: A Novel on Youth, Family, Love, Faith, and Responsibility." Thesis. University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1990.

Kallmaker, Karin. One Degree of Separation. Ferndale, MI: Enfield, 2003.
*Tallahassee, FL: Bella Books, 2003.
SETTING NOTE: Adventures of an Iowa City public librarian (Johnson County)

Kantor, MacKinlay. But Look, the Morn: The Story of a Childhood. New York: Coward-McCann, 1947.
*New York: Editions for Armed Services, 1946.
*London: Falcon Press, 1950.
SETTING NOTE: Webster City, Iowa, early 1900s (Hamilton County)

Kantor, MacKinlay. God and My Country. Cleveland, OH: World Publishing, 1954.
*Pleasantville, NY: Reader’s Digest Association, 1954.
*New York: Grossett & Dunlap, 1954.
*New York : Bantam, 1955, 1954.
*New York: Bantam Books, 1957.
*New York: Grossett & Dunlap, 1966.
NOTE: Also titled as
Follow Me Boys: (God and Country)
SETTING NOTE: Adventures of a scoutmaster in Webster City in early 1900s

Kantor, MacKinlay. Happy Land. New York: Coward-McCann, 1942.
*Philadelphia: Curtis Publishing, 1943.
*New York: Coward-McCann, 1943.
*Garden City, NY: The Dial Press, 1944.
*New York: Paperback Library, 1962.
SETTING NOTE: Small Iowa town (Webster City) in WWII era (Hamilton County)

Kantor, MacKinlay. The Jaybird. New York: Coward-McCann, 1932.
*New York: Manor Books, 1960.

Kantor, MacKinlay. Spirit Lake. Cleveland, OH: World Publishing, 1961.
*New York: New American Library, 1961.
*London: W. H. Allen, 1962.
*London: White Lion Publishers, 1973, 1961.
SETTING NOTE: Novel chronicles 1857 massacre at Spirit and Okoboji lakes (Dickinson and Clay Counties)

Kantor, MacKinlay. Valedictory. New York: Coward-McCann, 1938, 1939.  

Kentfield, Calvin. All Men are Mariners. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1962.
*London: W.H. Allen, 1963.
  

Kentfield, Calvin. The Angel and the Sailor: A Novella and Nine Stories. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1957.
*London: V. Gollancz, 1957.
*New York: McGraw-Hill, 1962, 1957.
SETTING NOTE: Southern Iowa, near Keokuk (Lee County)

Kinsella, W.P. If Wishes Were Horses. Toronto: HarperCollins, 1996.
NOTE: First volume of Iowa baseball trilogy
SETTING NOTE: Iowa baseball player seeks out Ray Kinsella

Kinsella, W.P. The Iowa Baseball Confederacy. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986.
*Toronto: Collins, 1986.
*Boston: Ballantine Books, 1987, 1986.
*Toronto: Totem Books, 1987.
*New York: Ballantine Books, 1996, 1986.
SETTING NOTE: Fictional Onomata, Iowa in 1908; some scenes in Iowa City (Johnson County)

Kinsella, W.P. Magic Time. Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 1998.
*Stillwater, MN: Voyageur Press, 2001.
SETTING NOTE: Fictional Grand Mound, Iowa in modern-times

Kinsella, W.P. Shoeless Joe. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982.
*New York: Ballantine Books, 1983, 1982.
*[s.l.]: Allison & Busby, 1988, 1982.
*London: W.H. Allen, 1988, 1982.
*[s.l.]: Star, 1989.
*[s.l.]: Random House Canada, 1991.
*Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1992, 1982. (collectors edition)
*New York: Ballantine Books, 1996.
*Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999, 1982.
SETTING NOTE: Iowa farming community in 1980s; scenes in Iowa City (Johnson County)

Kinsella, W.P. Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa: Stories. [Ottawa]: Oberon Press, 1980.
*Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1993, 1980.
NOTE: Short story collection and first version of
Shoeless Joe
SETTING NOTE: Rural Iowa communities

Klein, Adam. Tiny Ladies. London: Serpent's Tail, 2003.
SETTING NOTE: California social worker moves to Iowa to escape past problems

Klinkowitz, Jerome. Basepaths: From the Minor Leagues to the Majors and Beyond. New York: Scribners, 1984.
*Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
SETTING NOTE: Mason City, Iowa minor-league baseball club (Cerro Gordo County)

Kohrt, Ruth. Armon's Apples: A Novel of Man Against the Prairie. Des Moines, IA: Center Press Books, 1998.
SETTING NOTE: New York native purchases Iowa homestead (Clayton County)

Kohrt, Ruth. From a Test Tube with Love. Bryn Mawr, PA: Buy Books on the Web.com, 1999.
*Haverford, PA: Infinity Publishing, 2001.
SETTING NOTE: Northwest Iowa farm girl moves to Des Moines

Kohrt, Ruth. Nine Months at $90. [Des Moines, IA]: s.n., 1997.
*Des Moines, IA: s.n., 1999.
SETTING NOTE: First-year teacher in a 1930s Iowa one-room country school

Kohrt, Ruth. Stella's Statue. Bloomington, IN: 1st Books, 2003.
SETTING NOTE: Early Iowa village settlement

Kruse, Aaron. River City Justice. Gilroy, CA: Bookstand Publications, 2005.
SETTING NOTE: Murder mystery in modern, Burlington, Iowa

Lacey, Margaret. Silent Friends: A Quaker Quilt. Urbana, IL: Stormline Press, 1992.
SETTING NOTE: Three generations of Quakers on their Iowa farm

Lafore, Laurence Davis. Nine Seven Juliet: A Mystery Novel. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969.
SETTING NOTE: Fictional city of Buchanan (Iowa City area) in modern era

Laird, Charlton. Thunder on the River. Boston: Little, Brown, 1949.
*New York: Bantam Books, 1950.
*[no location]: Transworld Publishers, 1953.

Laird, Charlton. West of the River. Boston: Little, Brown, 1953.
*New York: Bantam, 1957, 1953.
SETTING NOTE: Mississippi River towns and Missouri in 1830s

Lamp, C.O. Pony Trails and Puppy Tales. New York: iUniverse, 2005.
SETTING NOTE: Short stories about modern-day Manning, Iowa (Carroll County)

Landis, Jill Marie. Sunflower. New York: Berkely, 1988.
*New York: Berkely, 1990, 1988.
SETTING NOTE: Historical romance in pioneer Iowa

Layton, Nancy. The Pink House. Ildyllwind, CA: Crone House, 2005.
SETTING NOTE: Woman returns to hometown of fictional Nathan Springs, Iowa

Leggett, John W. Making Believe. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986.
SETTING NOTE: Iowa City and University of Iowa in Vietnam era

Lindeen, Mary. Hooray for Midsommar! Crystal Lake, IL: Rigby, 1999.

Linkletter, Monte. Cricket Smith. New York: Harper, 1959.
*London: A. Deutsch, 1960.
*Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, 1960, 1959.

Longley, Ralph L. Cabin on the Second Ridge. New York: Vantage Press, 1976.
SETTING NOTE: Novel details pioneer life in Grinnell, Iowa (Poweshiek County)

Loski, Diana, Linda M. Sniffen, and Jolie Kemp. 1864: A Year in the Life of a Civil War Soldier. Boise, ID: Writer's Press Service, 1995.
SETTING NOTE: Iowa-born Union soldier recounts his life during Civil War

Lottman, Eileen. She and I. New York: Morrow, 1991.
SETTING NOTE: Conjoined twins from Sioux City, Iowa tell life stories (Woodbury County)

Lounsberry, Barbara, ed. 16,000 Suspects: A RAGBRAI Mystery. Cedar Falls, IA: Public Radio KUNI, 1999.
SETTING NOTE: Modern-day Iowa during RAGBRAI

Lounsberry, Barbara,ed. Orchestrated Murder: An Iowa Mystery. Cedar Falls, IA: Public Radio KUNI, 2001.
NOTE: Focus on deaths of Iowa symphony conductors

Lounsberry, Barbara, ed. Politics is Murder: An Iowa Mystery. Cedar Falls, IA: Public Radio KUNI, 2000.
SETTING NOTE: Iowa campaign trail for 2002 gubernatorial election

Lounsberry, Barbara,ed. Time & Chance: An Iowa Murder Mystery. Cedar Falls, IA: Public Radio KUNI, 1998.
SETTING NOTE: Fictional town of Bella in northeast Iowa

Lynn, David Hayden. Wrestling with Gabriel: a Novel. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2002.
SETTING NOTE: Baltimore reporter travels to Iowa due to family crisis

Magnuson, James, and Dorothea G. Petrie. Orphan Train. New York: Dial Press, 1978.
*New York: Fawcett Crest, 1978.
*Pleasantville, NY: Reader's Digest Association, 1978. [novel condensation]
*Boston: G.K. Hall, 1979, 1978.
*London: Prior, 1979, 1978. [large print edition]
SETTING NOTE: 1894 arrival of orphan train in Dysart, Algona, and New Hampton areas (Tama, Kossuth, and Chickasaw counties)

Mallam, R. Clark and Shirley Schmidt. The Curator. [S.l.: s.n.], 1983.

Manfred, Frederick Feikema. SEE ALSO Feikema, Feike.

Manfred, Frederick Feikema. The Chokecherry Tree. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1948.
SETTING NOTE: Fictional Siouxland, Iowa (northwestern Iowa, modeled on hometown of Doon) (Lyon County)

Manfred, Frederick Feikema. Eden Prairie. New York: Trident Press, 1968.
SETTING NOTE: Fictional Siouxland (Doon, Iowa)

Manfred, Frederick Feikema. Green Earth: A Novel. New York: Crown Publishing, 1977.
SETTING NOTE: Fictional Siouxland (Doon, Iowa)

Manfred, Frederick Feikema. Of Lizards and Angels: A Saga of Siouxland. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992.
SETTING NOTE: Fictional Siouxland (Doon, Iowa)

Martens, Lucile, and Margaret Rogers. Fun is Where You Find it: Escapades of the Innocents. Chicago: Adams Press, 1976.
SETTING NOTE: Sioux City, Iowa in early 1900s (Woodbury County)

Martin, Brett Stephan. Greenfields. Baltimore, MD: AmErica House, 2001.
SETTING NOTE: Boy comes of age in Iowa and the Midwest

McCoy, Maureen. Summertime. New York: Poseidon Press, 1987.
*New York: Washington Square Press, 1988.

McCoy, Maureen. Walking After Midnight. New York: Poseidon Press, 1985.
*New York: Washington Square Press, 1986, 1985.
SETTING NOTE: Present-day Cedar Rapids (Linn County)

McCracken, Elizabeth. Niagara Falls All Over Again. New York: Dial Press, 2001.
*Rockland, MA: Wheeler Publishing, 2001. [large print edition]
*London: Vintage Books, 2003, 2002.
SETTING NOTE: Only son of Jewish Des Moines family joins vaudeville and Hollywood's golden age. (Polk County)

McCracken, Susan. For the Call of a Friend. Richmond, IN: Friends United Press, 1997.
SETTING NOTE: Quaker family in 1800s western Iowa

McCracken, Susan. For the Gift of a Friend. Richmond, IN: Friends United Press, 1995.
SETTING NOTE: Quaker pioneer family in 1800s Iowa frontier

McCracken, Susan. For the Love of a Friend. Richmond, IN: Friends United Press, 1994.
SETTING NOTE: Pioneer Quaker family moves from Indiana to Iowa

McDonald, Julie. Amalie's Story. Montezuma, IA: Sutherland Publishing, 1970.
*New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970.

NOTE: First novel of Danish family series
SETTING NOTE: Danish woman comes to western Iowa (Harlan area) from 1800-1880s (Shelby County)

McDonald, Julie. Reaching: A Novel. Montezuma, IA: Sutherland Publishing, 1988.
SETTING NOTE: Harlan, Iowa girl goes to Iowa City/University of Iowa in 1940s

McDonald, Julie. Young Rakes: A Novel. Rock Island, IL: East Hall Press, 1991.
SETTING NOTE: English colony in 1800s LeMars, Iowa (Plymouth County)

McElroy, Edith Wasson. Years of Valor. [Des Moines]: Iowa Civil War Centennial Commission, 1969.
SETTING NOTE: Iowa farm in Civil War era (ca. 1830-1870s)

McHale, Thomas. Dooley's Delusion. Atlanta, GA: Droke House, 1971.
SETTING NOTE: Sioux City Catholic diocese (Woodbury County)

McIlrath III, James Harley. "'Possum Trot and Other Stories." Thesis. University of Northern Iowa, 1999.

McKibbin, Carroll R. Lillian's Legacy: Marriage and Murder in Rural Iowa. Bloomington, IN: 1st Books, 2003.
SETTING NOTE: Guthrie Center, Iowa (Guthrie County)

McMillen, Howard. The Many Mansions of Sam Peeples. New York: Viking Press, 1971.
*New York: Viking Press, 1972, 1971.
SETTING NOTE: Set in fictional Kanecka City, KS, modeled on Iowa City

McMurtry, Larry. Moving On: A Novel. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970.
*London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971.
*New York: Avon Books, 1971.
*London: Sphere, 1972,1970.
*New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987, 1970.
*New York: Pocket Books, 1988, 1970
*New York: Book-of-the-Month Club, 1990.
*New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999, 1970.
*New York: Scribner Paperback Fiction, 1999.
SETTING NOTE: Texas couple comes to Iowa City/University of Iowa in 1960s

Meissner, Susan. In All Deep Places. Eugene, OR: Harvest House, 2006.
SETTING NOTE: New England writer returns to fictional Halcyon, Iowa to run family newspaper

Melcher, Alan M. Darkness on the Edge of Town: A Jerry Crossman Mystery.
West Conshohocken, PA: Infinity Publishing, 2006.
SETTING NOTE: Detective investigates 1961 murder of Iowa farm wife and her son

Michaels, Leigh. Exclusively Yours. Toronto: Harlequin Books, 1989, 1988.
*London: Mills & Boon Limited, 1988.
  

Michaels, Leigh. Family Secrets. Toronto and New York: Harlequin Books, 1994.
*Richmond {U.K}: Mills & Boon, 1995.
*New York and Toronto: Harlequin, 2001.
SETTING NOTE: Iowa single father in modern, small community

Michaels, Leigh. Kiss Yesterday Goodbye. New York: Harlequin Books, 1984.
*London: Mills & Boon, 1984.
*Toronto: Harlequin Books, 1993, 1984.
NOTE: Part of the Men Made in America series from Silhouette Romances
SETTING NOTE: Iowa rural community

Michaels, Leigh. Once and for Always. Toronto: Harlequin Books, 1990, 1989.
*[London]: Mills & Boon, 1989.
*Long Preston, North Yorkshire, England: Magna Large Print Books, 1995,1989.
  

Miller, Merle. That Winter. New York: W. Sloane, 1948.
*New York: Popular Library, 1948.
SETTING NOTE: Novel follows lives of three Iowa WWII veterans on their returns home

Miller, Tom. Fourth and Long. Parkersburg, IA: Mid-Prairie Books, 1997.

Millhiser, Marlys. Nella Waits. New York: Putnam, 1974.
*Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, 1975, 1974.
SETTING NOTE: Ghost story set in 1930s-1940s Charles City, Iowa (Floyd County)

Millhiser, Marlys. The Rampant Reaper. New York: St. Martin's Press: Minotaur Books, 2002.
*Toronto: Worldwide Library, 2003.
SETTING NOTE: Murder mystery in fictional Myrtle, Iowa
NOTE: Available for downloading at EBookMall.

Modesitt, L.E. The Soprano Sorceress. New York: Tor, 1997.
*London: Orbit, 1997.
*New York: Tor, 1998, 1997.
SETTING NOTE: ISU music professor in modern-day Ames, Iowa (Story County)

Moore, Patrick. Iowa. New York: Masquerade Books, 1996.

Morrow, Thomas J. Nebraska Doppelganger. Oceanside, CA: Old Warrior Press, 2006.
SETTING: German-American farm boy fights for the Nazis in Africa and is later sent to an Iowa POW camp

Mosier, Kay Sickels. Walnut Valley Farm. Centennial, CO: Lifevest Publishing, 2006.
SETTING NOTE: Life on a 1940s-1950s Iowa farm

Mossman, Dow. The Stones of Summer; A Yeoman's Notes, 1942-1969. New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1972.
*New York: Popular Library, 1972.
*New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 2003.
SETTING NOTE: Iowa farm, 1945-1968

Muilenburg, Walter J. Prairie. New York: Viking Press, 1925.
SETTING NOTE: Iowa rural farm life, late 1800s

Mukherjee, Bharati. Jasmine. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1989.
*New York: Viking Penguin, 1989.
*Markham, Ontario: Penguin Books Canada, 1990, 1989.
*London: Virago Press, 1990, 1989.
*New York: Fawcett Crest, 1991, 1989.
*London: Virago Press, 1991, 1990.
*New York: Grove Press, 1999.
*London: Virago, 2005.
SETTING NOTE: Indian woman starts new life in modern-day Iowa (Iowa City area)

Murphy, Christine W. Through Iowa Glass. Hard Shell Word Factory: 1998.
Available for downloading at Hardshell.
SETTING NOTE: Modern-day, small Iowa town

Newborn, Sasha. The Basement. Santa Barbara, CA: Mudborn Press, 1978.
SETTING NOTE: Iowa City (Iowa Avenue) and Africa in modern times

Nolan, Robert. The Whitehurst Way. Columbus Junction, IA: CJ Communications, 2005.
SETTING NOTE: Small Iowa college's football program

Norton, C.J. Mannitto Tears. Bettendorf, IA: Prairie Publishing, 1988.

Nuhn, Ferner. Three Stories Plus Two Verses. Claremont, CA: [s.n.], 1979.
NOTE: Author is husband of Ruth Suckow

Olsen, Lance. Live From Earth. New York: Ballantine Books, 1991.
SETTING NOTE: University of Iowa/Iowa City in modern times

Opstein, Ed. Rennie Haran and the Letters Home. [s.l.]: Xulon Press, 2007.
SETTING NOTE: Des Moines reporter uncovers ancient, biblical mystery (Polk County)
NOTE: First title in the Rennie Haran series

Orr, Elaine. Searching for Secrets. [Bloomington, IN]: 1st Books Library, 2002.
SETTING NOTE: Iowa City teacher and policeman investigate school crime

Palecek, Mike. Joe Coffee's Revolution. Madison, WI: Badger Books, 2003.
*Oregon, WI: Waubesa Press, 2003.
SETTING NOTE: Iowa idealist runs for U.S. House seat

Palecek, Mike. KGB. Baltimore, MD: PublishAmerica, 2001.
SETTING NOTE: Sioux City activists disrupt presidential visit (Woodbury County)

Palecek, Mike. The Last Liberal Outlaw. Villa Park, IL: New Leaf, 2004.
SETTING NOTE: Corporation attempts to build prison in fictional Liberal, Iowa

Palecek, Mike. Looking for Bigfoot. Berthoud, CO: Howling Dog Press, 2005.
SETTING NOTE: National talk-radio host journeys to find truth in America

Palecek, Mike. The Truth. New Hampshire: Writers Publishing Cooperative, 2003.
SETTING NOTE: Peace activist battles national media from fictional Saint Rose, Iowa

Parrish, Patt. Escape the Past. New York: Walker, 1985.
*Thorndike, ME: Thorndike Press, 1999, 1985.
*Bath [England]: Chivers, 2000.
SETTING NOTE: Iowa small town

Pelton, Sonya T. Ecstasy's Magic. NewYork : Zebra Books, 1992.
SETTING NOTE: Romance set in modern-day, fictional River City, Iowa

Pietrzyk, Leslie. A Year and a Day. New York: William Morrow, 2004.
SETTING NOTE: Small town in southeastern Iowa, possibly Johnson County.

Poage, Jean. Pioneer Tales of Jasper County. Newton, IA: News Printing Co., 1974.

Preheim, Lois Thieszen, and Caroline P. Bergen. Apples for Immigrants. Aurora, NE: Blue River Publishing, 1999.
SETTING NOTE: 1874 Iowa Mennonites organize food relief train for Nebraska families

Price, Nancy. Sleeping with the Enemy. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987.
*London: Century Hutchinson, 1987, 1986.
*New York: Berkley Publishing, 1988, 1987.
*New York: Berkley Publishing, 1991, 1987.
SETTING NOTE: Present-day Cedar Falls/Waterloo (Black Hawk County)

Proulx, E. Annie. Accordion Crimes. New York: Scribner, 1996.
*Thorndike, ME: Thorndike Press, 1996.
*New York: Scribner Paperback Fiction, 1996.
*London: Fourth Estate, 1996.
*New York: Scribner Paperback Fiction, 1997, 1996.
*London: Fourth Estate, 1997.
SETTING NOTE: Portion of novel features German immigrants in Iowa in early 1900s

Quick, Herbert. Aladdin & Co.: A Romance of Yankee Magic. New York: Henry Holt, 1904.
*New York: Grossett & Dunlap, 1904.
*Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1907, 1904.
*New York: Grossett & Dunlap, 1907.
*New York: Grossett & Dunlap, 1910.
SETTING NOTE: Fictional Monterey County (Grundy County) in late 1800s

Quick, Herbert. Double Trouble, or, Every Hero his Own Villain. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1906.
SETTING NOTE: Fictional Monterey County (Grundy County) in late 1800s

Quick, Herbert. The Hawkeye. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1923.
*New York: A.L. Burt, 1923
*New York: Curtis Publishing, 1923.
*New York: Grossett & Dunlap, 1923.
*New York: Council on Books in Wartime, 1943, 1923.
NOTE: Second volume of Iowa trilogy
SETTING NOTE: Profiles Iowa farmers during 1870-1880s

Quick, Herbert. The Invisible Woman. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1924.
NOTE: Third volume of Iowa trilogy
SETTING NOTE: Profiles Iowa farmers from 1890s-1900

Quick, Herbert. Vandemark's Folly. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1921.
*New York: A.L. Burt, 1922.
*New York: Curtis Publishing, 1922.
*New York: Grossett & Dunlap, 1922.
*Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 1987.
NOTE: First volume of Iowa trilogy
SETTING NOTE: Profiles westward pioneers into fictional Monterey County, Iowa, ca. 1850 (Grundy County)

Rayfiel, Thomas. Colony Girl. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999.
*New York: Picador USA, 2000,1999.
SETTING NOTE: Religious cult in modern-day Iowa farming community

Rhoads, Alvaretta. Sage Leaves from Iowaland. Madrid, IA: Western Printing Co., 1911.

Rhodes, David A. The Easter House. New York: Harper and Row, 1974.
*London: Secker & Warburg, 1975, 1974.
SETTING NOTE: Modern-day, fictional Ontarion, Iowa

Rhodes, David A. The Last Fair Deal Going Down. Boston: Little, Brown, 1972.
SETTING NOTE: Des Moines and Iowa State Fair

Rhodes, David A. Rock Island Line. New York: Harper and Row, 1975.
*London: Secker and Warburg, 1975.
SETTING NOTE: 1900s in Sharon Center, Iowa (Johnson County)

Rich, Virginia. The Cooking School Murders. New York: Dutton, 1982.
*Thorndike, ME: Thorndike Press, 1982.
*New York: Ballantine Books, 1983.
SETTING NOTE: Modern-day, fictional Harrington, Iowa (Spirit Lake area)

Roberts, Eldon. Footprints. [S.I.: s.n.], 1989.

Roberts, James P. Dark Iowa, Bright Iowa. Madison, WI: White Hawk Press, 1994.
SETTING NOTE: Horror and science fiction with eleven different Iowa settings

Roberts, Lorraine Coolidge. Henersons' Mill. Kearney, NE: Morris Publishing, 1998.
*Fullerton, CA: Densmore, Funk, & Phelps, 1997.

Robinson, Marilynne. Gilead. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2004.
*Toronto: HarperCollins, 2004.
*London: Virago, 2005.
*Waterville, ME: Thorndike Press, 2005, 2004. [large print edition]
*Toronto: HarperPerennial Canada, 2005.
*London: Virago, 2006.
NOTE: 2005 PULITZER PRIZE WINNER
SETTING NOTE: Minister of fictional Gilead, Iowa recounts life on plains

Rockwell, Mary Emilia. A Home in the West, or, Emigration and its Consequences. Dubuque, IA: Dubuque Express and Herald, 1858.
*Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 2005.
NOTE: First novel published in Iowa {serialized by newspaper}
SETTING NOTE: New England couple become early Iowa settlers in fictional Newburg, Iowa

Roth, Karen. Found on 16th Avenue. San Antonio, TX: Watercress Press, 2006.
SETTING NOTE: Coming of age story in 1930s Cedar Rapids' Czech Village (Linn County)

Roth, Philip. Letting Go. New York: Random House, 1962.
*New York: Bantam Books, 1962.
*New York: Bantam Books, 1963, 1962.
*New York: Bantam Books, 1970, 1962.
*London: Corgi, 1971, 1962.
*London: Corgi, 1974, 1962.
*London: Corgi, 1978, 1962.
*New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1982, 1962.
*Harmondsworth, England: Penguin 1984, 1962.
*New York: Fawcett Crest, 1985, 1962.
*New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991, 1961.
*New York: Vintage Books, 1997, 1962.
SETTING NOTE: Iowa City/University of Iowa, fall, 1953

Rule, Edith. Little Stories of Mason City's Past, 1851-1870. Mason City, IA: [s.n.], 1928.
*Mason City, IA: [private printing], 1928.

Iowa Literary Landscape

Editor's Forward

Preface

Introduction

Recent Project Additions

Adult Books A-F

Adult Books G-H

Adult Books I-R

Adult Books S-Z

Short Stories & Novellas

Children's Books

All Authors

All Titles

Iowa Towns

Iowa Counties

Iowa Regions

References

Appendix: Landscape Literature

Appendix: Poetry Sources

Appendix: Feature Films

Appendix: Electronic Works

Appendix: Audio Works

Appendix: Non-English Editions

Appendix: Iowa Folklore

Endnote


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