Good Roots: Writers Reflect on Growing Up in Ohio

ISBN 10: 0821417290 / ISBN 13: 9780821417294

Published by Ohio University Press, 2006

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pp. 208.

Seller Inventory # 26971400

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Good Roots: Writers Reflect on Growing Up in Ohio
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0821417290
• ISBN 13: 9780821417294
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Winner of the Ohioana Library’s 2008 Ohio Legacy Citation
2014-2015 Choose to Read Ohio selection

“A good place to be from.” That’s how some people might characterize the Buckeye State. The writings in Good Roots: Writers Reflect on Growing Up in Ohio, are testimony to the truth of that statement. By prominent writers such as P. J. O’Rourke, Susan Orlean, and Alix Kates Shulman, these contributions are alternately nostalgic, irreverent, and sincere, and offer us a personal sense of place. Their childhoods are as varied as their work. Some were raised in urban Cleveland, Akron, and Cincinnati, others in the small Ohio towns that typify the Midwest, and still others in the countryside. Yet what they have to tell us about their roots resonates with a shared heritage, a sense of what is universal and enduring about growing up in the heartland.

Their collective résumé reads like a literary Who’s Who, including four Pulitzer Prizes, several National Book Awards, and many prestigious fellowships. Good Roots is also plain good reading from some of our country’s most accomplished contemporary writers.

Contributors include: Jill Bialosky, Dan Cryer, Michael Dirda, Elizabeth Dodd, Anthony Doerr, Rita Dove, Ian Frazier, Dale Keiger, Andrea Louie, Kathleen Dean Moore, Mary Oliver, Susan Orlean, P. J. O’Rourke, Julie Salamon, Scott Russell Sanders, Alix Kates Shulman, Jeffery Smith, James Toedtman, and Mark Winegardner.

About the Author

Ohio native Lisa Watts is an editor and writer who raised her family in a small Ohio town for ten years.