A memoir of Midwestern life and culture from the author of Winesburg, Ohio Praise for A Story Teller's Story —- "The American Portrait of the Artist ." -Charles Baxter "Probably unequaled . . . for the austerity of moral courage and sincerity of conviction... A book which should be read by every intelligent American." —- New York Times "In the field of literary autobiography, it stands practically alone in America." —- The Nation "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