WHO HAMLIN GARLAND IS:

Author of almost 40 volumes of fiction, biography, verse, and essays, among which the best known are "Main-Traveled Roads," "A Son of the Middle Border," "A Daughter of the Middle Border," and "Rose of Dutcher’s Coolly." A director of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, membership in which is the highest professional honor to which an American writer may aspire.

Garland is one of the pioneers in American realistic local-color fiction. His first book, "Main-Traveled Roads," was the first to portray in literature the realities of middle-western farm life. His autobiographical studies, "A Son of the Middle Border," "A Daughter of the Middle Border" (which won the Pulitzer prize for the best American biography of the year in 1922) and "Trail Makers of the Middle Border," have been universally recognized as outstanding contributions to American literature.

Friend of almost every important American of the last 40 years, he has written in his reminiscent latest volumes, "Roadside Meetings," "Companions of the Trail," and "My Friendly Contemporaries," many intimate anecdotes concerning such well-known figures as Theodore Roosevelt, William Dean Howells, Henry James, Henry George, William Jennings Bryan, James Whitcomb Riley, Eugene Field, Edwin Booth, Edward MacDowell. Stephen Crane, Frank Norris, and a score of others.

Now he is generally acclaimed the Dean of American Letters and has been accorded an assured place high in the rolls of the makers of American literature.

Hamlin Garland has been lecturing for more than 40 years. In that time he has delivered hundreds of lectures at the largest American universities to the delight of many thousands of people. No one is better able to lecture on the books, men and events of the last 50 years than Hamlin Garland.

WHAT THE CRITICS THINK OF HAMLIN GARLAND’S WRITINGS:

William Dean Howells— 
‘In all the region of autobiography I do not know quite the like of Hamlin Garland’s story of his life, and I should rank it with the very greatest of that kind in literature."

Theodore Roosevelt— 
"Hamlin Garland’s ‘Son of the Middle Border’ is to me of absorbing interest; in the first place, because of the narrative itself, and in the next place, because of the lessons which it suggests. We are fortunate that it has been written."

Joseph Edgar Chamberlain (literary editor of the Boston Transcript) —
"Garland has done for western life what Hardy has done for Wessex. For this service to literature I call Garland a true and a great poet."

Edwin Markham (poet and author of "The Man with the Hoe" ) —
"Garland’s book, in its wide sweep and basic truth and sharp delineation, reaches an epic significance, and will be a storehouse for history and fiction down years to come.

Vernon Louis Parrington (author of "Main Currents in American Thought," the widely acclaimed new history of American literature ) —
"To have written the history of the generation that swept across the western prairies is to compress within covers a great movement and a great experience—one of the significant chapters of our total American history.’

 THE LECTURES

Mr. Garland will deliver three of his most popular lectures on December 2, December 6, and December 9, in the UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII LECTURE HALL, Each lecture will begin at 8 o’clock in the evening.

ROADSIDE MEETINGS
DECEMBER 2

COMPANIONS OF THE TRAIL
DECEMBER 6

THE MAKERS OF AMERICAN LITERATURE
DECEMBER 9

Season Ticket for the Three Lectures—$2.00

Single Lecture—$ 1.00