Reading Ohio: Books & Authors Read

1. James Thurber
   1. The 13 Clocks
   2. “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”
2. Paul Laurence Dunbar: “Little Brown Baby” (text online) & “Sympathy” (text online)
3. Langston Hughes: “The Negro Speaks of Rivers“
4. Rita Dove: “Gospel” (from Thomas and Beulah)
5. Joe Eszterhas and Michael D Roberts: Thirteen Seconds: Confrontation at Kent State
6. Charles W. Chesnutt: The Conjure Stories
7. Hamilton, Virginia: The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
8. Paul Laurence Dunbar: Folks from Dixie (As republished in The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar, 2005, Ohio University Press)
9. Paul Laurence Dunbar: Selected Poems (Edited with an Introduction by Herbert Woodward Martin)
10. Craig S. Simpson and Gregory S. Wilson: Above the Shots: An Oral History of the Kent State Shootings (2016, Kent State University Press)
11. Toni Morrison: The Bluest Eye
12. Susan L. Woodward and Jerry N. McDonald: Indian Mounds of the Middle Ohio Valley
13. Barbara Robinson: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
14. The Planter of Modern Life: Louis Bromfield and the Seeds of a Food Revolution – Stephen Heyman (US, 2020)