"Literary St. Louis: A Guide" (2000)
St. Louis, Missouri, US: Washington University International Writers Center and Missouri Historical Society Press (book, biography), 2000.
9.5" x 6" x 0.625", 265 pages, softcover, ISBN 1-883982-35-9.
9.5" x 6" x 0.625", 265 pages, softcover, ISBN 1-883982-35-9.
Literary St. Louis: A Guide by Lorin Cuoco and William H. Gass, as published in softcover by the Missouri Historical Society Press (St. Louis, Missouri, US) in 2000. Images curated by Michelle Komie. Book designed by Ken Botnick. Illustrations by Emily Pyle. A book on the lives of St. Louis authors.
In the "Central West End and Forest Park" section of the book, a map shows the location of Burroughs' childhood home at 4664 Pershing Avenue, and pages 180-184 feature a biography of William S. Burroughs along with early photographs of him as a child. This also includes a chronology, a bibliography, and a list of locations important to Burroughs in St. Louis.
Not in Shoaf.
Not in Schottlaender.
Contents:
- Lorin Cuoco: Preface and Acknowledgments
- St. Louis Literary Chronology
- "Downtown":
- Elijah Lovejoy
- William Wells Brown
- William Greenleaf Eliot/Henry Ware Eliot/Charlotte Stearns Eliot
- Kate Field
- Ulysses S. Grant
- William T. Sherman
- Heinrich Börnstein
- Carl Schurz
- Joseph Pulitzer
- William T. Harris
- Mark Twain
- Eugene Field
- William Marion Reedy
- Theodore Dreiser
- Zoë Atkins
- Paul Elmer More
- Winston Churchill
- Irma Rombauer
- Joseph Stanley Pennell
- Martha Gellhorn
- Sara Teasdale
- Orrick Johns
- Fannie Hurst
- Patience Worth
- "Midtown":
- Marshall McLuhan
- "Central West End and Forest Park":
- Kate Chopin
- T. S. Eliot
- Thomas Wolfe
- Sally Benson
- Emily Hahn
- Kay Thompson
- Chester Himes
- William S. Burroughs
- Peter Taylor
- "University City and Clayton":
- Fannie Cook
- Tennessee Williams
- William Inge
- John G. Neihardt
- Harold Brodkey
- John Gardner
- John Morris
- Constance Urdang
- Stanley Elkin
- Howard Nemerov
- "Outer Limits":
- Marianne Moore
- Shirley Seifert
- Charles A. Lindbergh
- Josephine W. Johnson
- Locations List
- Bibliograpy
- Illustration Credits













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