The Auburn Conference

by Tom Piazza

Book Overview

It is 1883, and America is at a crossroads. At a tiny college in Upstate New York, an idealistic young professor has managed to convince Mark Twain, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Confederate memoirist Forrest Taylor, and romance novelist Lucy Comstock to participate in the first (and last) Auburn Writers' Conference for a public discussion about the future of the nation. By turns brilliantly comic and startlingly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 160938881X
• ISBN13: 9781609388812
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Length: 199 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 7.9"