Place of Hawks

by August Derleth

The author, August William Derleth, was known for his detective stories and with this book made his debut as a serious novelist. The book is 4 novellas with one Linda Grell's attempt to escape her strange family, Rella Farway's hatred of the land, a tragedy which warped Lavinia Ortell's mind, and the decline of the Pierneau family- all symbolic of the passing of a cultural frontier in Wisconsin.

250 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1935

About the author

August William Derleth was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first book publisher of the writings of H. P. Lovecraft, and for his own contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos and the Cosmic Horror genre, as well as his founding of the publisher Arkham House (which did much to bring supernatural fiction into print in hardcover in the US that had only been readily available in the UK), Derleth was a leading American regional writer of his day, as well as prolific in several other genres, including historical fiction, poetry, detective fiction, science fiction, and biography

A 1938 Guggenheim Fellow, Derleth considered his most serious work to be the ambitious Sac Prairie Saga, a series of fiction, historical fiction, poetry, and non-fiction naturalist works designed to memorialize life in the Wisconsin he knew. Derleth can also be considered a pioneering naturalist and conservationist in his writing

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