Word: zona
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wisconsin University where he majored in English, graduating in 1914 with Harvard colleague Sumner Slichter. It was the age of the "Wisconsin Idea;" it was also a time when Mid-Western writers were rebelling against the literary dictation of New York; when the Wisconsin players were presenting plays by Zona Gale. William Leonard, Laura Sherry--and H. M. Jones, the latter already the author of "A Little Book of Local Verse." When Jones received his M.A. at Chicago University in 1915, regionalism was especially strong there, with Harry Hansen, a rising young reviewer on the Chicago News and a group...