Great Lakes and Michigan Literature

Hanging On: Or How to Get Through a Depression and Enjoy Life

Edmund G. Love

Love captures the unusual experiences, adventures, and struggles that characterized his youth in Depression-era Michigan.

The Situation in Flushing

Edmund G. Love

A humorous portrait of growing up in Flushing, Michigan after the turn of the century.

A Small Bequest

Edmund G. Love

The comic account of two city boys and their summer expedition through Michigan’s Upper Peninsula in 1934.

Waiting for the Morning Train: An American Boyhood

Bruce Catton

Bruce Catton, the renowned Civil War scholar recalls his boyhood in Benzonia, Michigan.

The Land of the Crooked Tree

U. P. Hedrick

Hedrick writes of his youth on the Michigan frontier.

The Third Coast: Contemporary Michigan Fiction

Edited by James Tipton and Robert E. Wegner

A collection of twenty-three short stories representing the best in contemporary fiction in Michigan.