MINNESOTA WRITERS ON THE MAP 52 29 65 66 49 48 33 31 71 57 69 13 33 1 17 46 2 63 3 4 37 25 5 74 6 73 38 61 15 7 16 32 19 21 9 26 44 23 55 24 41 18 27 30 22 50 34 8 35 36 11 42 45 75 14 51 70 53 67 54 64 12 58 59 60 62 28 20 56 10 43 68 72 40 39 47 1 Margaret Culkin Banning ..... Fiction, Nonfiction 20 Wanda Gág ................................. Children’s Fiction 39 Maud Hart Lovelace................ Children’s Fiction 58 John Sandford ........................... Fiction, Mystery 2 Kelly Barnhill .............................. Children’s Fiction 21 Diane Glancy .............................. Poetry, Fiction 40 Frederick Manfred ................... Fiction, Journalism 59 Charles M. Schulz ..................... Comic Strip 3 Marion Dane Bauer ................. Children’s Fiction, Nonfiction 22 Paul Gruchow ............................. Nonfiction, Memoir 41 Eugene Joseph McCarthy ... Nonfiction, Poetry 60 Julie Schumacher .................... Fiction 4 Charles Baxter ........................... Fiction, Nonfiction 23 Judith Guest ............................... Fiction 42 Thomas McGrath ...................... Poetry, Fiction 61 Mabel Seeley .............................. Fiction, Mystery 5 Sandra Benitez .......................... Fiction, Memoir 24 Patricia Hampl ........................... Nonfiction, Memoir 43 James McPherson .................... Nonfiction 62 Eric Sevareid .............................. Journalism, Memoir 6 John Berryman.......................... Poetry 25 Ellen Hart ..................................... Fiction, Mystery 44 Vilhelm Moberg ........................ Fiction, Nonfiction 63 Lavyrle Spencer ........................ Fiction, Romance 7 Carol Bly ....................................... Journalism, Fiction 26 Jon Hassler .................................. Fiction 45 David Mura .................................. Poetry, Nonfiction 64 Faith Sullivan .............................. Fiction 8 Robert Bly ................................... Poetry, Nonfiction 27 Pete Hautman ............................ Fiction, Children’s Fiction 46 Jim Northrup .............................. Fiction, Nonfiction 65 Anton Treuer .............................. Nonfiction 9 Lois McMaster Bujold ............ Science Fiction, Fantasy 28 Bill Holm ....................................... Poetry, Memoir 47 Tim O’Brien ................................. Fiction, Memoir 66 David Treuer ............................... Fiction, Nonfiction 10 Frances Densmore .................. Nonfiction 29 Helen Hoover ............................. Nonfiction, Children’s Fiction 48 Beatrice Ojakangas ................ Cookbooks 67 Brenda Ueland........................... Nonfiction, Memoir 11 Kate DiCamillo .......................... Children’s Fiction 30 David Housewright ................. Fiction, Mystery 49 Sigurd Olson ............................... Memoir, Nonfiction 68 Thorstein Veblen ...................... Nonfiction 12 Ignatius Donnelly ..................... Nonfiction, Speculative Fiction 31 Florence Page Jaques ........... Nonfiction 50 Gordon Parks ............................. Fiction, Photography 69 Gerald Vizenor .......................... Fiction, Nonfiction 13 Bob Dylan .................................... Musician, Lyricist 32 Marlon James ............................. Fiction, Fantasy 51 Alexs Pate .................................... Fiction, Nonfiction 70 Donald Wandrei ........................ Speculative Fiction, Mystery 14 Charles Eastman ...................... Memoir, Nonfiction 33 Louis Jenkins ............................. Poetry 52 Gary Paulsen .............................. Children’s Fiction 71 Will Weaver ................................ Fiction 15 Leif Enger .................................... Fiction 34 Garrison Keillor ......................... Fiction, Poetry 53 Bao Phi .......................................... Poetry, Children’s Fiction 72 Laura Ingalls Wilder ............... Children’s Fiction 16 Heid Erdrich ................................ Poetry, Nonfiction 35 William Kent Krueger ............ Fiction, Mystery 54 Robert Pirsig .............................. Fiction 73 August Wilson ........................... Drama 17 Louise Erdrich ........................... Fiction, Poetry 36 Lorna Landvik ............................ Fiction 55 J.F. Powers................................... Fiction 74 Kathleen Woodiwiss .............. Fiction, Romance 18 F. Scott Fitzgerald ................... Fiction 37 Meridel Le Sueur ...................... Fiction, Nonfiction 56 O.E. Rølvaag ............................... Fiction, Nonfiction 75 Kao Kalia Yang .......................... Memoir, Children’s Fiction 19 Vince Flynn ................................. Fiction, Thrillers 38 Sinclair Lewis ............................. Fiction 57 Calvin Rutstrum ........................ Nonfiction, Memoir reasons listed above, regardless of personal circumstance and behavior or the social mores of the times in which they lived. they which in times the of mores social the or behavior and circumstance personal of regardless above, listed reasons The Friends does not endorse the words or actions of the writers included on this map. Writers were chosen for the the for chosen were Writers map. this on included writers the of actions or words the endorse not does Friends The This project is made possible in part by the State of Minnesota through a grant to the Minnesota Department of Education. Education. of Department Minnesota the to grant a through Minnesota of State the by part in possible made is project This Map illustration and design by Chad Nestor, 2019. Nestor, Chad by design and illustration Map libraries through fundraising, advocacy, and programming. programming. and advocacy, fundraising, through libraries inspire their communities. As an independent nonprofit organization, The Friends invests in in invests Friends The organization, nonprofit independent an As communities. their inspire and strengthen to libraries for catalyst a as acts Library Public Paul Saint the of Friends The study of books throughout Minnesota. Minnesota. throughout books of study Center in 2012, and in that role The Friends promotes reading, literacy, libraries, and the scholarly scholarly the and libraries, literacy, reading, promotes Friends The role that in and 2012, in Center Minnesota Center for the Book. The Library of Congress designated The Friends as Minnesota’s Minnesota’s as Friends The designated Congress of Library The Book. the for Center Minnesota the as Library, Public Paul Saint the of Friends The of project a is Map the on Writers Minnesota About the Minnesota Center for the Book the for Center Minnesota the About Have created work which illuminates the meaning of what it is to be from or live in Minnesota. in live or from be to is it what of meaning the illuminates which work created Have • Have had a strong influence on Minnesota’s literary reputation; and/or reputation; literary Minnesota’s on influence strong a had Have • or international literary prizes); literary international or Have/had significant national or international acclaim (as represented by garnering national national garnering by represented (as acclaim international or national significant Have/had • Are/were groundbreaking in their literary style, genre, or age; or genre, style, literary their in groundbreaking Are/were • genres, and styles, and include those who: those include and styles, and genres, Writers were chosen to represent a broad range of geographic locations, heritage/backgrounds, heritage/backgrounds, locations, geographic of range broad a represent to chosen were Writers Guidelines for Qualification for Guidelines historical and contemporary writers who call Minnesota home. home. Minnesota call who writers contemporary and historical the honoring in piece one only is map this and paper, on down put to hard is legacy literary location where they spent a majority of their writing life in the state. The magnitude of Minnesota’s Minnesota’s of magnitude The state. the in life writing their of majority a spent they where location to express either the birthplace of the writer, the place with which the writer is associated, or the the or associated, is writer the which with place the writer, the of birthplace the either express to its writing life, and in many cases, the world at large. The placement of the writers was chosen chosen was writers the of placement The large. at world the cases, many in and life, writing its means a comprehensive list, writers were chosen who have had a meaningful impact on the state, state, the on impact meaningful a had have who chosen were writers list, comprehensive a means modern times, whose contributions to the state’s literary legacy are profound. While this is by no no by is this While profound. are legacy literary state’s the to contributions whose times, modern The Minnesota Center for the Book is proud to present this collection of writers, from historical to to historical from writers, of collection this present to proud is Book the for Center Minnesota The About the Map the About MINNESOTA WRITERS ON THE MAP THE ON WRITERS MINNESOTA MINNESOTA WRITERS ON THE MAP: SELECTED CHRONOLOGY 1934 1974 2016 Meridel Le Sueur Robert Pirsig publishes Bob Dylan awarded publishes Zen and the Art of the Nobel Prize I Was Marching Motorcycle Maintenance in Literature after 126 rejections 1857 1912 1928 1940 1954 1969 1987 2004 Ignatius Donnelly Gordon Parks Wanda Gág publishes The first book in Helen Hoover John Berryman August Wilson