{"id":1657,"date":"2013-09-29T22:24:50","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T03:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=1657"},"modified":"2013-09-29T22:24:50","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T03:24:50","slug":"updike-included-in-a-journey-through-literary-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2013\/09\/29\/updike-included-in-a-journey-through-literary-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Updike included in A JOURNEY THROUGH LITERARY AMERICA"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Screen<\/a>John Updike is among the writers profiled in\u00a0A Journey Through Literary America<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/em>a coffee-table book that is being sold to benefit the establishment of an American Writers Museum in Chicago. Here’s the release:<\/p>\n

The authors of\u00a0A Journey Through Literary America<\/em>\u00a0are embarking on a fundraising campaign to benefit the establishment of the\u00a0American Writers Museum<\/strong>. Anticipated to open in Chicago, 2015, it will be the first national museum in the United\u00a0States dedicated to the history of American literature and the American writer. Purchase the book, greeting cards or fine art prints directly from the\u00a0LiteraryAmerica.net<\/a>\u00a0website and 50% of the proceeds will be donated to help establish the\u00a0American Writers Museum. Better yet, become a Chapter One Patron when you donate $100 directly to the\u00a0American Writers Museum<\/a>\u00a0and receive the book as a complimentary gift.
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\nJoin the movement to establish the first national writers museum in the United States.<\/strong><\/em>
\nThere are more than 17,500 museums in the United States. Among these are museums that focus on art, history, sports, pop culture, science, technology, race and ethnicity. Although there are many wonderful small museums that commemorate the lives of individual writers, almost unbelievably, there is\u00a0not a single museum dedicated<\/strong>\u00a0to the history of American literature and to American writers.<\/p>\n

About\u00a0A Journey Through Literary America<\/em><\/strong>
\nThis 304-page coffee table book takes a look at 26 of America’s great authors and the places that inspired them. Unique to this book of literary biography is the element of the photograph. With over 140 photographs throughout, the images add mood and dimension to the writing and they are often shockingly close to what the featured authors described in their own words. Lushly illustrated and beautifully designed, the book is as much of a pleasure to look at as it is to read. It earned a prestigious Eric Hoffer Award as the Best Art Book of 2010 and notable reviews.<\/p>\n

The book’s featured authors extol a range of voices: Sherwood Anderson \u2022 Raymond Carver \u2022 Willa Cather \u2022 James Fenimore Cooper \u2022 Rita Dove \u2022 Ralph Waldo Emerson \u2022 William Faulkner \u2022 Richard Ford \u2022 Robert Frost \u2022 Nathaniel Hawthorne \u2022 Ernest Hemingway \u2022 Langston Hughes \u2022 Washington Irving \u2022 Robinson Jeffers \u2022 Sinclair Lewis \u2022 Herman Melville \u2022 Henry Miller \u2022 Toni Morrison \u2022 Flannery O Connor \u2022 E. Annie Proulx \u2022 Philip Roth \u2022 Wallace Stegner \u2022 John Steinbeck \u2022 Henry David Thoreau \u2022 John Updike \u2022 Thomas Wolfe<\/p>\n

The Literary America Collection of fine art prints have been exhibited at the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas, CA (2010) and at the Faulkner Gallery in Santa Barbara, CA (2012).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Updike is among the writers profiled in\u00a0A Journey Through Literary America,\u00a0a coffee-table book that is being sold to benefit the establishment of an American Writers Museum in Chicago. Here’s the release: The authors of\u00a0A Journey Through Literary America\u00a0are embarking … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1659,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions\/1659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}