South Bend: Poet/essayist Kenneth Rexroth won several Hammond: National Book Awards Jean Shepherd was a popular for Poetry, and he is radio and television personality. known as a pioneer in He is best known as the writer of the anti-establishment Rome City: A Christmas Story, which he literature of the Gene Stratton Porter was narrated. His popular short 1960’s. one of the earliest stories were published as books environmentalist writers, like In God We Trust, All Others penning stories about her Pay Cash (1966). childhood in the Limberlost Swamp. Her second novel Freckles (1904) was popular, and A Girl of the Limberlost (1909) was adapted four times as a film. Columbia City: A Lutheran minister, Lloyd C. Douglas wrote novels about morals that were popular in the 1930’s. He is best known as the author of The Robe, which was adapted as a classic film starring Richard Burton.

Kentland: George Ade was a Logansport: journalist, writer, Clara Ingram Judson Hoosier humorist, and playwright. wrote more than 70 Ade used the common children’s books vernacular of the time in beginning in 1915, his Fables in Slang (1899). including the Mary Jane Ross-Ade Stadium at series and several Purdue University is biographies of American Book presidents. named in his honor— appropriately since he wrote the first American play about football. Lafayette: Oakford (formerly Club: George Barr McCutcheon was a Fairfield): Maurice Thompson novelist best known during his wrote about during the time for Graustark. Brewster’s time of the Revolutionary War in Millions (1902) has been adapted as a play and his popular book Alice of Old a motion picture—the 1985 version starring Vincennes (1901). Map Richard Pryor.

Muncie: Emily Crawfordsville: Kimbrough wrote her first New York Times of Lew Wallace wrote Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ in 1880, still a Best Seller, Our Hearts Were Young best seller and popular film. Noblesville: and Gay, in 1942. The book was Wallace is the only novelist is best known as produced as a motion picture in 1944. honored in the U.S. Capitol the creator of the Kelsey Timmerman published National Statuary Hall with a detective stories, which have been adapted Where Am I Wearing? (2012) detailing Indiana the conditions of garment factories statue. for film and television. Stout was nominated Best Mystery Writer of the Century by the around the world. world’s largest mystery convention. Dana: Pulitzer Authors Prize-winning war Indianapolis: See inset map. correspondent Ernie Greenfield: James Whitcomb Riley (1849- Pyle published a 1916), “the Hoosier poet,” authored nearly a compilation of articles thousand poems, many in the dialect of the time. as Here Is Your War: “Little Orphant Annie” and “The Raggedy Man” are his th Story of G.I. Joe, Beech Grove: most famous works. Riley Hospital for Children in Between the turn of the 20 century and the Sarah T. Bolton was an which was made as a Indianapolis is named for him. activist for women’s rights and beginning of World War II, Indiana ranked motion picture in “Indiana’s pioneer poet who wrote 1945. second only to New York in the production of “Paddle Your Own Canoe” (1850). Bolton national best sellers, and a close second at is honored with a bronze in the Indiana Shelbyville: Charles that with a score of 213 to New York’s 218. Statehouse and a park in Beech Grove. Terre Haute: Theodore Major’s When Knighthood Was Indiana: A History by William E. Wilson in Flower spent more than three Dreiser explored social years on the best sellers list and was problems in novels like Sister adapted into a popular motion picture. Carrie (1899) and An American Mary Pickford starred in the movie Tragedy (1925). The 1952 film adaptation Gosport: James Alexander Thom is a popular historical version of his novel Dorothy Vernon of of Sister Carrie starred Laurence Olivier. Haddon Hall. Dreiser Hall at Indiana State University is novelist. His book, Follow the named in his honor. River (1981), was produced as a television movie.

Bloomington: Ross Lockridge, Jr., published Raintree County in Aurora: 1948, and all 50,000 press Elmer Davis was an award- copies sold out on the first winning journalist. In 1954 day. Elizabeth Taylor starred Vernon: he published a collection of in the motion picture version Jessamyn West wrote about his speeches and essays as of the book in 1957 . her Indiana Quaker But We Were Born Free, a upbringing in The Friendly best seller. Persuasion, published in 1945. The movie adaptation Vevay: starring Gary Cooper was Edward Eggleston published The nominated for an Academy Hoosier School-Master (1871), a Award. depiction of rural Indiana.

Indianapolis IndianapolisIndianapolis: Booth Tarkington is one of three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize more than once (1919 and 1922), penning novels The Gentleman from Indiana, The Magnificent Ambersons, and Alice Adams.

Marguerite Young won the Guggenheim and Newberry Library awards in 1945 for Angel in the Forest. Young was part of circle of writers including Richard Wright, Carson McCullers, and Truman Capote. New Harmony: Reformer Robert Dale One of the most famous writers of the 1960’s Owen published counterculture was Kurt Vonnegut. Best Moral Physiology in known for his novel Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), 1830, in which he Vonnegut made cameo appearances in the film advocated more Evansville: Marilyn Durham penned the best seller versions of his novels Mother Night and rights for The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing in 1972. Burt Reynolds Breakfast of Champions. The Kurt Vonnegut women and starred in the film adaptation in 1973. Memorial Library in Indianapolis honors the free education. author as a cultural and educational resource.

John Green is an author of young adult fiction. His novel The Fault in Our Stars debuted at number one on Best Sellers list in 2012. The film version of the book was released in 2014, and Green was subsequently included on Time magazine’s list of the “100 Most Influential People in the Map created by the Ball State University Libraries’ GIS Research and Map Collection for use in classroom or educational research, learning, and displays. Sources: Ball State University Libraries’ Digital Media Repository; Indiana Historical Society; Indiana: A History by World.” William E. Wilson; Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library; Britannica; Biography.com; Internet Movie Database; Humanities Journal; Literary Map of Indiana by the Indiana Council of Teachers of English.