The Story Teller's Story

A memoir of Midwestern life and culture from the author of Winesburg, OhioPraise for A Story Teller's Story---"The American Portrait of the Artist."-Charles Baxter"Probably unequaled . . . for the austerity of moral courage and sincerity of conviction. . . . 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