|
Welcome to the New Ruth Suckow Memorial Association Website
Ruth Suckow was a famous writer with Iowa roots; this website was created by the Ruth Suckow Memorial Association (RSMA) to celebrate her literary legacy, and to help readers find more information about her life and work--as well as several sample stories.
The pictures above are of Ruth as a young woman, in mid life, and with her husband, Ferner Nuhn. Several years after her death, Ferner helped to establish the Ruth Suckow Memorial Association to make sure that new generations of readers would be able to read her short stories and books.
Our Blog!
http://ruthsuckow.blogspot.com/ The blog is another source of information about our organization and includes the opportunity for you to comment on postings. Here are more details about our 2011 Annual Meeting. You can reserve your lunch online and pay for it that day. This year's book is Ruth Suckow’s The Folks. The public is invited to a discussion of Cedar Falls writer Ruth Suckow’s most famous novel, The Folks, Saturday, June 11 at 1 p.m. at the Hearst Center for the Arts. Barbara Lounsberry, University of Northern Iowa emeritus professor of English, will lead the discussion of this 1934 Iowa novel set in Belmond (which means “beautiful world” in French). The novel follows Fred and Annie Ferguson, “the folks” of the title, and their children, from their start on an Iowa farm and as they branch out in the early twentieth century. “The Folks has been called Suckow’s masterpiece,” Lounsberry explains. “Suckow captures with searing realism the joys and sorrows each generation meets, the challenges of leaving and returning, and the abiding Iowa earth.” Copies of the novel are available in the “Iowa Section” of the Cedar Falls Public Library. For further information, contact Lounsberry (Lounsberry@gmail.com). Last updated June 10, 2011
|
