With her husband, a physician, she moved first to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and then to Great Falls, Montana, where she lived until her husband’s death, returning then to teach at her alma mater, Wells College. Like us, the novelist Mildred Walker was transplanted to the Midwest, having grown up around Philadelphia and having graduated from college in New York. Paul and Lin Enger of Moorhead-they have given us narrative roots in our new home. When my family and I first moved to Iowa in the summer of 2000, I began reading Midwesterns to get a feel for our new place in the world, a place that seemed so different from the Appalachian foothills of our Pennsylvania childhood. Louise Erdrich, Havel Kimmel, Marilynne Robinson, Leif Enger, Ethan Canin and more recently, William Kent Krueger of St. To recognize World Book Day 2014, Concordia Language Villages is posting five book reviews over the next several weeks from a wide range of contributors.īy President William Craft, Concordia CollegeĪ young Montana woman who dreams of studying languages at the university finds herself alone, teaching school children in a harsh, wind-wracked winter landscape, her fiancé having left her, and her family unable to send her back to study after a mind-opening first college year. This is the figure at the center of Mildred Walker’s Winter Wheat, first published during WWII and published again by the University of Nebraska Press in 1992. UNESCO designated April 23 as World Book Day to celebrate the importance of books and publishing. By President William Craft, Concordia College |
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