Chronicles the little-known story of the November 1841 insurrection aboard the slave ship Creole as it transported slaves from Richmond, Virginia, to New Orleans, looking at the events and personalities involved in the mutiny. Reprint.

The authors of The Creole Mutiny introduce a collection of firsthand chronicles of the experiences of fugitive slaves traveling to freedom in the North and Canada along the Underground Railroad in the years prior to the Civil War. Simultaneous.

The authors of The Creole Mutiny introduce a collection of firsthand chronicles of the experiences of fugitive slaves traveling to freedom in the North and Canada along the Underground Railroad in the years prior to the Civil War. Simultaneous.

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This story of James Jones and the Handy Colony is a popular account of one of the most unusual writing colonies ever established in the United States.Between his Army enlistment in 1939 and the wound that sent him to a Memphis hospital in 1943, James Jones suffered the loss of both his mother and his father, a victim of suicide. Psychologically precarious, Jones drank heavily, often brawling in bars. Concerned about his erratic behavior, his aunt took Jones to meet Lowney Handy, who took virtual control of his life, securing his discharge from the army and, with her husband Harry, inviting him into their home. Lowney became Jones’s writing teacher—and his lover.            An aspiring but unpublished writer when she began the Handy Writers’ Colony in Marshall, Illinois, Lowney Handy developed a reputation as an inspirational teacher of writing. Her husband, an oil refinery executive from nearby Robinson, supported her in this endeavor, which proved quite successful. The Handy colony achieved national attention through the success of Jones, its most celebrated member and the author of From Here to Eternity and Some Came Running. (view table of contents)

Presents a remarkable collection of seventy-three never-before-published poems from Sandburg's early years in Chicago that cover such topics as social protest, lyrical observations of the world around, and poetic studies of Chicago life, accompanied by a biographical introduction and commentary on the poems. IP.

Previously unpublished, uncollected, and unexpurgated poems by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet portray a variety of duplicitous characters, illustrate the folly of war, and ruminate on the dream of love

A selection of Sandburg's short stories features the playful adventures of Dippy the Wisp, Susan Slackentwist, Peter Potato Blossom Wishes, and other zany characters

Gathers humorous stories, jokes, and poems about books, reading, and animals