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 About the Map The Minnesota Center for the Book is proud to present this collection of writers, from historical to modern times, whose contributions to the state’s literary legacy are profound. While this is by no means a comprehensive list, writers were chosen who have had a meaningful impact on the state, its writing life, and in many cases, the world at large. The placement of the writers was chosen to express either the birthplace of the writer, the place with which the writer is associated, or the location where they spent a majority of their writing life in the state. The magnitude of Minnesota’s literary legacy is hard to put down on paper, and this map is only one piece in honoring the historical and contemporary writers who call Minnesota home. Guidelines for Qualification Writers were chosen to represent a broad range of geographic locations, heritage/backgrounds, genres, and styles, and include those who: • Are/were groundbreaking in their literary style, genre, or age; • Have/had significant national or international acclaim (as represented by garnering national or international literary prizes); • Have had a strong influence on Minnesota’s literary reputation; and/or • Have created work which illuminates the meaning of what it is to be from or live in Minnesota. About the Minnesota Center for the Book Minnesota Writers on the Map is a project of The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library, as the Minnesota Center for the Book. The Library of Congress designated The Friends as Minnesota’s Center in 2012, and in that role The Friends promotes reading, literacy, libraries, and the scholarly study of books throughout Minnesota. The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library acts as a catalyst for libraries to strengthen and inspire their communities. As an independent nonprofit organization, The Friends invests in libraries through fundraising, advocacy, and programming. Map illustration and design by Chad Nestor, 2019. This project is made possible in part by the State of Minnesota through a grant to the Minnesota Department of Education. The Friends does not endorse the words or actions of the writers included on this map. Writers were chosen for the reasons listed above, regardless of personal circumstance and behavior or the social mores of the times in which they lived. MINNESOTA WRITERS ON THE MAP: SELECTED CHRONOLOGY 1934 Meridel Le Sueur publishes I Was Marching 1857 1912 1928 1940 Ignatius Donnelly Gordon Parks Wanda Gág publishes The first book in begins the doomed is born Millions of Cats, Maud Hart Lovelace’s utopian community, pioneering the Betsy-Tacy series Nininger City, in modern picture book is published Dakota County 1889 1923 1934 1944 Charles Eastman Donald Wandrei Frederick Manfred Eugene Joseph graduates from begins work as a begins hitchhiking McCarthy serves medical school, page at the Saint across America as codebreaker for becomes prolific Paul Public Library (it takes two years) Military Intelligence author and speaker in WWII 1867 1913 1930 1943 Laura Ingalls Wilder Calvin Rutstrum Sinclair Lewis J.F. Powers is sent Charles M. Schulz is born begins first becomes the first to Sandstone Prison 100-day canoe trip American to win for being a in Minnesota the Nobel Prize conscientious in Literature objector to WWII 1905 1925 1938 Densmore sisters F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Brenda Ueland go on an expedition The Great Gatsby publishes If You to Ojibwe village at is published Want to Write Grand Portage 1974 2016 Robert Pirsig publishes Bob Dylan awarded Zen and the Art of the Nobel Prize Motorcycle Maintenance in Literature after 126 rejections 1954 1969 1987 2004 Helen Hoover John Berryman August Wilson Sandra Benitez moves to Gunflint wins the Pulitzer wins his first honored with the Lake from Chicago Prize and National Pulitzer Prize Hispanic Heritage (in the midst of Book Award for for Fences Award for Literature her vacation) Dream Songs 1964 1974 1997 2016 Sigurd Olson Garrison Keillor Alexs Pate Ellen Hart receives helps pass the debuts A Prairie commissioned to the Grand Master or Wilderness Act Home Companion write novel based on Award from Mystery e Steven Spielberg’s Writers of America movie Amistad 1950 1968 1980 2001 Charles M. Schulz Tim O’Brien The film based Kate DiCamillo’s begins run is drafted into on Judith Guest’s Because of of “Peanuts” the military, novel Ordinary Winn-Dixie earns later writes People wins Best Newbery Honor The Things Picture Oscar They Carried 1957 1972 1994 2015 Louise Erdrich Kathleen Woodiwiss Anton Treuer begins Marlon James wins the is born publishes The Flame publication of Man Booker Prize for and the Flower, giving Oshkaabewis A Brief History of birth to the modern Native Journal Seven Killings romance novel 1980 Kao Kalia Yang is born.