A Story Teller's Story

The tale of an American writer's journey through his own imaginative world and through the world of facts, with many of his experiences and impressions among other writerstold in many notesin four booksand an Epilogue. This is a memoir of Midwestern life and culture from the author of Winesburg, Ohio. "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