Iowa: A Literary Landscape

Regions
All regions of Iowa are on the literary landscape. This list guides users to authors whose works we identify with a region. Refer to the Authors' files to get titles.

-- Dashes denote authors of juvenile fiction.

Black Hawk County (Cedar Falls/Waterloo)
   Aldrich, Bess Streeter
-- Gioielli, Stephani
-- Heath, May A.
-- Iyengar, Vijay
--Jensen, Jake
-- Knipp and Egemo
Price, Nancy
Tracey, Grant A.
Waller, Robert James
-- Wilson, Amanda

Boone County (Boone)
   Frederick, Michael

Cerro Gordo County (Mason City)
   Klinkowitz, Jerome
   Willson, Meredith
   Yoseloff, Martin

Chickasaw County (New Hampton)
   Magnuson and Petrie

Grundy County
   Quick, Herbert

Humboldt County
-- Baker, Laura Nelson

Kossuth County (Algona)
   Magnuson and Petrie

Kossuth County (Wesley)
   Wingert, Lynn R.

Mitchell County (Osage)
   Garland, Hamlin

Central Region

Hamilton County (Webster City)
   Kantor, MacKinlay

Madison County (Winterset)
  Hylton, J.D.
Waller, Robert James

Marshall County (Marshalltown)
-- Francis and Lazare

Pocahontas County (Gilmore City)
  Daniels, Guy

Polk County (Des Moines)
Agee, Jonis
-- Anderson, Betty Baxter
-- Bailey and Moran
Bacus, Kathleen
-- Felsen, Henry Gregor
--Knapp, Susan
Kohrt, Ruth
-- Lowry, Lois
McCracken, Elizabeth
Opstein, Ed
Rhodes, David A.
Scott, Beverly J.
Smiley, Jane
Speer, Ralph
-- Stack, Nicolete Meredith
Taylor, John

Polk County (Village of Fort Des Moines)
-- Anderson, Betty Baxter
-- Bailey and Moran
Brigham, Johnson

Poweshiek County (Grinnell)
   Longley, Ralph L.

Story County (Ames)
   Frederick, Michael
-- Gibson and Coxe
   Huffey, Rhoda
   Modesitt, L.E.
   Smiley, Jane

Tama County (Dysart)
   Magnuson and Petrie

South Central

Appanoose County (Centerville)
   Greenleaf, Stephen

Marion County (Pella)
   Kooi, Muriel Byers

Eastern Region

Cedar River environs
   Aldrich, Bess Streeter
   Chevalier (on Mississippi River)
   Braden, Louise Garland

Eastern Iowa University (fictional)
   Bury, Stephen

Lapham (fictional)
   Buxbaum, Katherine

Northeast Region

Allamakee County
   Holl, Kristi

Bella (fictional)
   Lounsberry, Barbara

Bremer County (Denver)
   Spence, Hartzell

Clayton County
Gillhoff, Johannes
Harstad, Donald

Clayton County (Elkader)
-- Hall, Lynn
-- Hall and Roth

Delaware County
-- Holl, Kristi

Dickinson County (Spirit Lake area)
Davidson, Peter
Rich, Virginia

Dubuque County (Dubuque)
Bissell, Richard
Garlock, Dorothy
Hoffman, Mathias
Wallis, James Harold

Fayette County
   Berryhill, Clint

Floyd County (Charles City)
   Millhiser, Marlys

General Northeast Region
Hopper, Elaine
--Medary, Marjorie
Stromme, Peer

Howard County (Riceville)
   Govern and Pitzenberger

Winneshiek County (Decorah)
Glawe, Dennis D.
-- Hall, Lynn
   Schultz, Robert

Winneshiek County (Spillville)
   Dostal, W.A.
-- Drexler and Shelby
   Hutchinson, Duane
-- Schaefer and Rosen

East Central

Benton County (Vinton)
-- Kimmel, Elizabeth Cody

Clinton County (Clinton)
-- Childs, Marquis William
Fisher, James R.

Jackson County (Sabula)
-- Lawlor and Cogancherry

Jones County (Fairview)
   Suckow, Ruth

Linn County (Cedar Rapids)
   Engle, Paul
   Gorman, Edward
  Henning, William E.
   McCoy, Maureen
--Roth, Karen
VanVechten, Carl

Linn County (Mount Vernon)
-- Medary, Marjorie

Scott County (LeClair)
-- Kimmel, E. Cody

Tama (Tama County)
-- Irwin, Hadley
   Young Bear, Ray A.

Traer (Tama County)
   Wilson, Margaret

Southeastern Region
Pietrzyk, Leslie
-- Wells, Helen

Des Moines County (Burlington)
   Hueston, Ethel

Henry County (Mount Pleasant)
   --Braulick, Jenny Panther

Iowa County
   Gillhoff, Johannes

Johnson County (Iowa City)
Andrews, Clarence A.
Baker, Larry
Berryhill, Clint
Borne, Deanna Bieber
Bourjaily, Vance
Calderwood and Hearst
Casey, John
Cassill, Robert Verlin
Cathey, Bill Robert
Exley, Frederick
-- Felsen, Henry Gregor
Halvorson, Jerome A.
Hardwick, Elizabeth
Horn, Margaret Capek
Irving, John
-- Irwin and Reida
Jeffery and Keeble
Johnson, Denis
Kallmaker, Karin
Leggett, John W.
McMurtry, Larry
Mukherjee, Bharati
Newborn, Sasha
Olsen, Lance
Orr, Elaine
--Reuter, Linda
Roth, Philip
--Sheth, Kashmira
Shields, David
Siciliano, Sam
Spivak, Talbot
Strieber, Whitley
Wakefield, Dan
Waters, Dan
Welt, Elly
Weverka, Robert

Johnson County (North Liberty)
   Clothier, Peter

Johnson County (Sharon Center)
   Rhodes, David A.

Keokuk County (Sigourney)
Huffman, Marth

Lee County (Keokuk)
-- Calhoun and Gretzer
   Hughes, Rupert
   Kentfield, Calvin

Montgomery County (Villisca)
   Bowman, Stephen

Muscatine County (Muscatine)
   Butler, Ellis Parker (adult and children's titles)

Muscatine County (West Liberty)
   Casey, John

Page County
   Boylen, Margaret Currier

Port City (probably Muscatine)
   Collins, Max A.

Scott County (Davenport)
Costello, Mary Charlotte Aubry
French, Alice
   Glaspell, Susan
-- Meigs, Cornelia

Van Buren County
   Stong, Philip Duffield

Washington County
   Hotle, Charles C.

Northwest

Buena Vista County (Storm Lake)
   Gaherty, Mike

Clay and Dickinson Counties (Lake Okoboji)
-- Sackett and Coy
   Kantor, MacKinlay

General Northwest Region
   Harnack, Curtis

Lyon County (Doon)
   Feikema, Feike
   Manfred, Frederick Feikema

Osceola County
   Harrison and Sollitt
   Sollitt, Kenneth W.
   Sollitt, Bullard, and Bullington

Palo Alto County
   Van Etten, Winifred

Plymouth County (LeMars)
   McDonald, Julie

Plymouth County (Remsen)
   Harnack, Curtis

Sioux County (Granville)
   Donovan, Josephine

Sioux County (Hawarden)
   Suckow, Ruth

Sioux County (Ireton)
-- Naylor, Reynolds, and Brown

Sioux County (Sioux City)
--Hewitt, William
Wishman, June

West Central

Adair County
   McGuire, Frances Lynch

Audubon County
-- McDonald, Julie

Sac County (Early)
   Dailey, Janet

Shelby County
-- Corey, Paul
-- McDonald, Julie

Woodbury County (Sioux City)
   Crary, Margaret
   Downing, J. Hyatt
   Frederick, Michael
   Martens and Rogers

Southwestern

Adams County (Corning area)
-- Hall, Lynn

Cass County (Atlantic)
Vermillion, Mary

Fremont County (Riverton)
   Spence, Hartzell

General Southwestern region
   Corey, Paul

Guthrie County (Casey)
Duncan, Thomas William

Guthrie County (Guthrie Center)
McKibben, Carroll

Mills County (Glenwood)
   Jackson, Donald Dean

Mills County (Hastings)
   Wearin, Otha D.

Pottawattamie County (Council Bluffs)
   Beer, Thomas

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

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