A Hoosier Sampler: An Anthology of Indiana Writers

by James A. Huston

In A Hoosier Sampler, James A. Huston provides a thorough compilation of the works of some of Indiana's most notable writers. Huston brings to the foreground such world renowned authors as Lew Wallace, Lloyd C. Douglas, Charles Major, Kurt Vonnegut, and James Whitcomb Riley among others, to produce a comprehensive volume of great works that provides the true flavor of each author's style as well as interesting, enjoyable, and instructive reading. Covering nearly every accomplished Indiana writer, this anthology will be of great use to students and professors of literature as well as the general reader.

608 pages, Paperback

First published March 28, 2000

About the author

James A. Huston was Professor of History at Purdue University. He received the B.A. and M.A. degrees from Indiana University and the Ph.D. from New York University.

Huston served in the U.S. Army as a rifle-battalion operations officer with the 134th Infantry, which fought in France in 1944-45 as a part of Patton's Third Army. Later, he served with the Office of the Chief of Military History and the Office of the Chief of Army Field Forces, U.S. Army, and has held the Ernest J. King Chair of Maritime History at the Naval War College, Newport, R.I.

Huston is also the author of 'Combat History of the 134th Infantry', 'Biography of a Battalion,' and some fifty articles on military and foreign affairs. Presently, he is a professor emeritus of history at Lynchburg College, Virginia