Hamlin Garland

Hamlin Garland (1860-1940), an American novelist, poet, and essayist born in West Salem, Wisconsin, is best known for his realistic depictions of Midwestern pioneer life in works like Main-Travelled Roads (1891) and his Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography A Daughter of the Middle Border (1921). He chronicled the hardships of farming families across the Great Plains in his "Middle Border" series, earning acclaim for blending social realism with personal memoir. Poets.org