1860/09/14 |
Hannibal Hamlin Garland is born on a farm near West Salem, Wisconsin, the second of four children of Richard Garland of Maine and Charlotte Isabelle McClintock. |
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1891/00/00 |
"Main-Travelled Roads" by Hamlin Garland is published by Arena Publishing Company. |
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1891/00/00 |
"The Return of the Private" by Hamlin Garland is published by Arena Publishing Company. |
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The Return of the Private (short story) |
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1891/00/00 |
"Under The Lion's Paw" by Hamlin Garland is published by Arena Publishing Company. |
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1891/00/00 |
"Up the Coolly" by Hamlin Garland is included in his collection of short stories, Main-Travelled Roads, published by Arena Publishing Company. |
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1893/00/00 |
Hannibal Garland purchases a home for parents. |
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Hamlin Garland House |
West Salem |
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1899/00/00 |
"Boy Life on the Prairie" by Hamlin Garland is published by Macmillan. |
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Boy Life on the Prairie (book) |
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Beginnings of Bad Boy Literature |
1921/00/00 |
"A Daughter of the Middle Border" by Hamlin Garland is published by Macmillan. |
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A Daughter of the Middle Border (book) |
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1921/06/22 |
Robert M Lovett writes in 'The New Republic' that the Pulitzer jury had actually selected 'Main Street' by Sinclair Lewis, not 'The Age of Innocence' by Wharton. Lovett did not say, but they had most likely been overruled by Nicholas Murray Butler. |
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The Age of Innocence (book) |
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1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
1922/04/00 |
Hamlin Garland is awarded a Pulitzer Prize for "A Daughter of the Middle Border". |
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A Daughter of the Middle Border (book) |
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1928/05/27 |
Hamlin Garland gives the principal address, The Westward march of the pioneers, at the unveiling of "The Pioneers" by his brother-in-law, Lorado Taft. |
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The Pioneers |
Elmwood |
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1940/03/04 |
Hannibal Garland dies at age 79, at his home in Hollywood, California. |
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1940/03/07 |
A memorial service is held for Hamlin Garland in Glendale, California. |
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1940/03/14 |
Hamlin Garland's ashes are buried in Neshonoc Cemetery in West Salem, Wisconsin. Reverend John B Fritz reads Garland's poem "The Cry of the Age" at the service. |
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