Found Documents from the Life of Nell Johnson Doerr

by Thomas Fox Averill

Book Overview

Winner of the 2019 Byron Caldwell Smith Book Award

Not just epistolary, this novel is archival, told entirely through journals, letters, photos, drawings, notes, and clippings left behind by Nell Doerr, who lived in Lawrence, Kansas, between 1854 and 1889. Although Nell seems so real you can reach out and touch her, she is a fictional character. The novel tells the story of her two stillborn babies, her move to Kansas, the loss of her husband...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826359302
• ISBN13: 9780826359308
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"