Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-12-07 | Page 25 | S. L. Literary Club Survey Shows Secret of Noted Authors' Success

S. S L. L Literary Club Survey Shows Secret of Noted Authors' Authors Success Tho The outstanding authors of ot the tho States achieved their fame largely by concentrating on local color stories on specific sectional themes or In other words Just writing about tho folks and scenes they thoy knew best loved most against or 1 penetrated most keenly This Is tho the conclusion of at Mrs Frank M. M McHugh president of at the Salt SaIt Lake Ladles Ladles' Literary club In Ina ina a n. survey Just completed with the assistance of 01 local library and literary lit literary lit lit- experts Even HEven a 0 superficial study would convince convince- one that the secret of or most successful authors' authors genius is their Insight Into the section of at tho the American scene with which they arc are most familiar declared Mrs Ira McHugh's McHughs McHughs McHugh's Mc- Mc Ic- Ic I Hughs Hugh's report Only shallow momentarily momentarily mo mo- moI mo- I popular stories can be turned out by writers who flit about from tram subject to subject from the African veldt to gay Pares paree Mrs McHugh explained that the literary club survey Is to be utilized utilized uti uti- uti In n the tho organizations organization's work to encourage Utah writers to develop native material Wo Va are arc convinced that Utah's great authors of ot tho the future should seek perspective and strive more ardently to translate tho the fictional raw raw materials right ht at their very doors asserted tho the survey findings s. l Following Is a summary sketch of the tho authors considered In the literary literary liter liter- ary nry club Investigation with a a. brief description to to show how they attained at attained attained at- at fame tame by specializing and mastering definite native naUvo fields mITERS or 01 TH TUB Tin EAST ST James Fenimore Cooper No Now EnglAnd England Eng Eng- land Last of tho the Mohicans Richard d Harding Davis New ew York ork City Van Margaret Deland Massachusetts I coast Old Cheater Chester Tales W W. D. D Edmonds ErIe Eric canal unal Rome nome Haul t tilary Mary ilary I 1 17 Wilkins Freeman Now England England EnglAnd Eng Eng- land farms A 4 New En England Nun Rob Robert rt Frost New Hampshire Nathaniel Hawthorne Massachusetts N New NW w England Expresses el deepest deepen ro romance romance ro- ro mance of New Nut England O O. Honry Henry Sidney Porter Now York streets The Tho Four Million The he Voice of or tb the City I Jo Joseph Joeeph soph Pennsylvania Iron region regions Throe Three Black Pennies Henry James Boston Tho The Boston Dos Dos- ton Ian Sarah Orne Orn Jowett Jewett Maine co coa coast t The Tho Country of the tho Pointed Fire nrc Deephaven Deephaven Deep haven v Basil King Vermont Break of Day Joseph Joeeph C. C Lincoln C Caps Capo po Cod Fair Harbor Ernest Poole Toole Now ow York harbor The Harbor H Hi Clouded U Tills inns a I With Wharton New York City Age ge of innocence NORTHLAND WRITERS OF OJ TILL THE Rex Hex D Beach h Yukon The Iron Trail James Oliver Curwood Canadian northland Th The country Beyond Jack Tack London Alaska Call of tho the Wild WRITERS IS O Ol OF TIre TILE MIDDLE WEST W. W IU n. Burnett Chicago Little LUtle Caesar Villa VIila Cither Cather ther Nebraska prairies O 0 Pioneers Pioneer Ono One of or Ours Our Irwin Cobb I Kentucky Red RI ell Cullum Dakota Montana Watchers of 0 the tha Plains One Va Way Trail Theodore u Indiana A Hoosier r HolI Holiday Ed Edward ward Eggleston In Indiana Hoosier Schoolmaster Edna Edn Ferber Oklahoma Chicago Cimarron Show ShowBoat Mississippi river r Doat Boat Zona Gale Gaic Middle Jiddle Veal Wc t Friendship VIII Village 0 Hamlin Garland Wisconsin Main Traveled Tr roads i H. H Haycox Dakota Free Grass Gnu Sinclair L Lewis Gopher PraIriE In- In ta Main aln Street Babbitt Dab bitt Edgar tAo Leo Masters Illinois Spoon River Anthology Frank Tank Norris Nome San Francisco Chicago o i Tho The Pit 0 O. O W W. O Orden d n Kansas Wasted Salt Randall Parrish Illinois When Wll- Wll Was Vall King Jean Tean StrAtton Porter Indiana Swamps Freckles Girl of tho the Limberlost James Whitcomb nile Riley Indiana Neighborly Poems Poems liars Hero a aHome At Home biome Carl Can Sandberg Sand rg Smoke an and Steel Booth Indiana Sherwood l Anderson And Ohio Wines s berg berr Ohio and Other Stories Hurst Cincinnati Back Bac Streets Stewart Edward White Michigan Blaz BIaz d Trail WRITERS 01 Ol TU TUB THE WEST Gertrude Gertrudo Atherton California The Th Californium Californians Zane Grey southwest W Riders d of th the Pr Purple Sage New Mexico I Shepherd of ot Guadaloupe Brot Bret Marto llano northern California Plo Flo I Deen o of tho the West Poker Poke Flat I Helen Flake Jackson southern Cal Call Ramona N. N Jones Jone Oregon Oregon Detour Peter B. B Kyne Texas Jim the Con Con- Joaquin Miller Sierras Dead bead in th the Sierras Sierra William Vaughn Moody Rocky Mountains Moun Moun- Th The Tho Great Divide Kathleen Norris Norri California Certain People of or Importance Storm House Hous L C C. C Western United States Gate Through the Mountain M. M I. I Perry Washington stated Tide House HoUe Owen Wister Wyoming W The Th sinian WRITERS OF TIlE THE SOUTH Jam James en Lano Lane Alien n. n Blue Bluegrass ra regions of Kentucky Kentucky Cardinal Choir Invisible A A. A W W. Armstrong Tenne Tennessee This Day and Time Time- France Francos Hodgson Burnett North Carolina Care Cro Una lina Louisiana George Georgo Washington Cable N Ne New W Or leans ns Old Creole Days Day Churchill Virginia Richard Carvel Carve historical 1 novel W. W Faulkner Mississippi Sartori Joel Chandler Harris Bani Georgia Uncle Remus Mary Johnston Jamestown Virginia To Have and to Hold Prisoners of ot po John Url Lloyd small town In Ken tucky Stringtown on th the Pike Pike Mary YarY N N. Murphree a George orge Elbert Craddock ck Tennessee The Young Mountaineers Prophet of Great Gre Smoky Mountain Thomas Nelson NeIlan Page Virginia In Ol Oda Virginia Francis Hopkinson Smith Fairfax county Virginia Colonel Carter of or Harriet Beecher Stowe Kentucky ky old south lOuth Uncle Toms Tom's Cabin Cabla Ruth McEnery Stuart Louisiana plantations A JI Golden Colden Wedding and Other Tales Mark Twain Samuel Cl Clemens mens MIs- MIs river Tom Toni Sawyer Huckleberry Hackle Huckle berry Finn Prose Epics Epic of American Life LUe Albert P. P Terhune Secret at ot of Sea Dream House e Harold Bell Dell Wright Ozark region Shepherd of tho the Hills 1111