A memoir of Midwestern life and culture from the author of Winesburg, Ohio Praise for A Story Teller’s Story — The American Portrait of the Artist. -Charles Baxter Probably unequaled … for the austerity of moral courage and sincerity ofconviction… . A book which should be read by every intelligent American. — New York Times
In the field of literary autobiography, it stands practically alone in America. — The Nation
The voice of the soliloquist … amplifies the drama of A Story Teller’s Story, as does the persistent theme of escape, from an America of fact and factories, marketing and manufacturing, to the borderless Ohios of imagination and creation. —From the introduction by Thomas Lynch