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Thanks to our amazing cities<\/span><\/span>\u00a0and universities, Iowa\u00a0<\/span>has been<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>blessed<\/span>\u00a0with a myriad of talented authors, known across the globe for their compelling novels, short stories,\u00a0<\/span>poetry<\/span>\u00a0and the like. And because w<\/span>e’re going to be\u00a0<\/span>st<\/span>uck<\/span>\u00a0indoors for a while<\/span>\u00a0longer,<\/span>\u00a0it\u2019s the perfect excuse to catch up on some reading!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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We rounded up a handful of Iowa’s most famous writers and compiled them right here\u2014along with a couple of suggested reads, of\u00a0<\/span>course! Below you’ll find recommendations for autobiographies, crime novels, poems,\u00a0<\/span>children’s<\/span>\u00a0picture books and so much more.\u00a0<\/span>So,<\/span>\u00a0the next time you get a chance, be sure to stop by one of\u00a0<\/span>our favorite local bookstores<\/span><\/a>\u00a0(either in-person or online) and pick up a few titles from th<\/span>ese talented creators.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mildred Armstrong Kalish<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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Mildred Armstrong Kalish was born on St. Patrick’s Day in 1922, on a farm near Garrison in Benton County<\/span>, IA<\/span>. Her childhood was strongly influenced by the Great\u00a0<\/span>Depression<\/span>\u00a0and the work ethic of her grandparents.\u00a0<\/span>Her famous\u00a0<\/span>novel<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>Little Heathens<\/span>, details the remarkable challenges and rewards of living a rural life where children were expected to accept responsibilities beyond the ordinary\u2014something she, herself, experienced growing up.\u00a0<\/span>At just\u00a0<\/span>13<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>Kalish\u00a0<\/span>became the companion, cook and caretaker of a retired missionary.\u00a0<\/span>She would go on to earn\u00a0<\/span>an<\/span>\u00a0Elementary Teacher’s Certificate; move to New York to work as a governess; join the United States Coast Guard Women’s Reserve; and become a professor of English\u00a0<\/span>in Long Island.\u00a0<\/span>Kalish\u00a0<\/span>currently resides in a retirement community in Cupertino, California.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Books<\/span>\u00a0to Read<\/span>:<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>Little Heathens: Hard Times and\u00a0<\/span>H<\/span>igh Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great\u00a0<\/span>Depression<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Eva Carter Buckner<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n

\"Eva<\/p>\n

Author photo courtesy of the Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Eva Carter Buckner was a prominent African American suffragist, poet and songwriter, born in 1861 in Washington, Iowa. As a young child, her family lived in Des Moines and Colorado Springs<\/span>. It was at a public school in Colorado Springs where she began writing poetry, eventually winning a poetry contest run by Mrs. J. D. Robinson, the mayor’s wife. Today,\u00a0<\/span>Buckner<\/span>\u00a0is remembered as a poet and songwriter,\u00a0<\/span>whose<\/span>\u00a0work inspired African American voices in both the\u00a0<\/span>suffrage movement and the civil rights movement. Her work appeared in the Denver Post, The Colorado Springs Sun, The Western Enterprise and several other well-known publications.\u00a0<\/span>She was also heavily involved in political work, volunteering for the Los Angeles Forum of Colored Women, the NAACP and the NCAAP School Committee of Los Angeles during her life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Works to Read:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>The Negro Trailblazers of California\u00a0<\/span>in\u00a0<\/span>C<\/span>ollaboration with<\/span>\u00a0Delilah L. Beasley<\/span><\/a><\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span>her\u00a0<\/span>poems\u00a0<\/span>City of Sunshine<\/span><\/a><\/em>;\u00a0<\/span>Let’s Go!<\/span><\/a><\/em>;\u00a0<\/span>and\u00a0<\/span>Tulsa’s<\/span>\u00a0Song<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Robert James Waller<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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Born in 1939 in Charles City, Iowa, Robert James Waller was an author, photographer and musician known fo<\/span>r his most popular novel:\u00a0<\/span>The Bridges of Madison County<\/span>, a romance that was later turned into a blockbuster film starring Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood. Before he wrote the iconic novel, he\u00a0<\/span>was a professor at the University of Northern Iowa from 1968 to 1991 where he taught management, economics and applied mathematics courses. He was also consulted on the\u00a0<\/span>topi<\/span>c<\/span>\u00a0of problem solving and decision making, even writing a non-fiction book\u00a0<\/span>The Summer Nights Never End…Until They Do: Life, Liberty, and the Lure of the Short-Run,\u00a0<\/span>which addresses problem solving models.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Books to Read:<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>The Bridges of Madison County<\/span><\/a><\/em>;\u00a0<\/span>Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend<\/span><\/a><\/em>;\u00a0<\/span>and<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Iowa: Perspectives\u00a0<\/span>on Today<\/span>\u00a0and Tomorrow<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Bill Bryson<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n

\"Bill<\/p>\n

Author photo courtesy of The National Churches Trust from London<\/a>,\u00a0CC BY 2.0<\/a>, via Wikimedia Commons<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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William Bryson (known as Bill Bryson) was born in 1951 in Des Moines. But while Bryson was born in the United States, he has spent\u00a0<\/span>the majority of<\/span>\u00a0his adult life in\u00a0<\/span>Britain, after falling in love with it during a backpacking trip through Europe.\u00a0<\/span>His first job in Britain was at the Holloway Sanatorium in Virginia Water, Surrey before returning to Des Moines for a few years with his wife to finish his degree at Drake University<\/span>. He went on to work as a journali<\/span>st, eventually going on to write acclaimed books\u2014some of which have been translated to the silver screen!<\/span>\u00a0Many of his stories talk about his love of travel, and are inspired by many of his adventures, including hiking the\u00a0<\/span>Appalachian<\/span>\u00a0Trail in the\u00a0<\/span>1990s, a tale he later recounted in his book\u00a0<\/span>A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the\u00a0<\/span>Appalachian<\/span>\u00a0Trail<\/span>, which was turned into a movie starring Robert Redford in 2015!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Books to Read:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>A Short History of Nearly Everything<\/span><\/a><\/em>;\u00a0<\/span>A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail<\/span><\/a><\/em>;\u00a0<\/span>and<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Notes\u00a0<\/span>From<\/span>\u00a0a Small Island<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Donald Harstad<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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Born in 1945,\u00a0<\/span>Donald Harstad is an\u00a0<\/span>Iowan\u00a0<\/span>novelist<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>and former police officer<\/span>\u00a0who has been publishing novels for more than two decades.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Harstad<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>specializes in crime fiction<\/span>\u00a0and police procedurals<\/span>, using his\u00a0<\/span>26 years\u00a0<\/span>as a police officer with the Sheriff’s Department of Clayton County as inspiration.\u00a0<\/span>Most of<\/span>\u00a0his novels are set in rural Iowa,\u00a0<\/span>primarily centering on police officer Carl Houseman, a loose analog for Harstad himself<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span>Currently<\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0he resides in Elkader, Iowa with his wife of 40 years, who was his high school sweetheart with whom\u00a0<\/span>he<\/span>\u00a0has one daughter.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Books to Read:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>The Carl Houseman Series<\/span><\/a><\/em>;\u00a0<\/span>Three Octobers<\/span><\/a><\/em>;\u00a0<\/span>and\u00a0<\/span>An Apple for the Creature<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Marilynne Robinson<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n

\"Marilyne\"<\/p>\n

Author photo\u00a0courtesy of\u00a0Christian Scott Heinen Bell<\/a>, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Marilynne Robinson may just be one of the most famous authors on this list\u2014best known for her iconic novels\u00a0<\/span>Housekeeping and Gilead<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>which won a Pulitzer Prize in 2005. She was born in Sandpoint, Idaho in 1943, but moved to Iowa City in 1991 to\u00a0<\/span>join the faculty at the University of Iowa as a professor of English and Creative Writing.<\/span>\u00a0In addition to her novels, she’s also written numerous articles, essays and reviews for reputable publications like\u00a0<\/span>Harper’s, The Paris Review<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>and<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>The New York Review of Books.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>While she\u00a0<\/span>officially\u00a0<\/span>retired in 2016, Robinson still resides in Iowa City and was named one of\u00a0<\/span>Time Magazine<\/span>‘s list of “100 Most Influential People” that same year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Books to Read:<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>Gilead<\/span><\/a><\/em>;\u00a0<\/span>Housekeeping<\/span><\/a><\/em>;\u00a0<\/span>Home<\/span><\/a><\/em>;\u00a0<\/span>and<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Lila<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Frank Conroy<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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Born in New York in 1936, Frank Conroy is one of the many Iowa authors who found a home here later in life. He gradua<\/span>ted from the esteemed Haverford College in Pennsylvania before\u00a0<\/span>acting as the director of the literature program at the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1987, he moved<\/span>\u00a0to Iowa City to become a director of the influential Iowa Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa. He served in that position for more than 18 years<\/span>. In addition to being an incredible writer and professor, Conroy was also an accomplished jazz pianist, winning a Grammy Award in 1986 for liner notes.\u00a0<\/span>This influenced many of his books, including\u00a0<\/span>Body and\u00a0<\/span>Soul,\u00a0<\/span>which is regarded as one of the finest evocations of the experience of being a musician.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Books<\/span>\u00a0to Read<\/span><\/strong>:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>Body and Soul<\/span><\/a><\/em>;\u00a0<\/span>Stop-Time<\/span><\/a><\/em>;<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>and<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Dogs Bark,\u00a0<\/span>B<\/span>ut the Caravan Rolls On: Observations Then and Now<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Kashmira Sheth<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n

\"Kashmira\"<\/p>\n

Author photo courtesy of Bob Beverson via\u00a0Kashmira Sheth<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Kashmira Sheth was born in India, with her first language being Gujarati, her mother’s tongue. She began learning English in fifth grade and eventually moved to\u00a0<\/span>Ames<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>to\u00a0<\/span>attend Iowa State University at 17\u00a0<\/span>where she<\/span>\u00a0rece<\/span>ive<\/span>d<\/span>\u00a0a degree in\u00a0<\/span>microbiology<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span>Before becoming an author, Sheth held several different jobs, including running a dance school and choreographing and performing Indian dances, working in a bakery<\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0and working as a food microbiologist. She later went on to become the author of several pic<\/span>ture books, chapter books, middle grade and young adult novels\u2014taking inspiration from her own life and experiences. Much of her work centers on Indian culture and features Indian and\u00a0<\/span>Indian American<\/span>\u00a0characters.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Books to Read:<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>Blue Jasmine<\/span><\/a><\/em>;\u00a0<\/span>Boys Without Names<\/span><\/a><\/em>;\u00a0<\/span>and<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Keeping Corner<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Happy Reading!<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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What books by local authors are on your bookshelf? Let us know in the comments below!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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