The Writings of Ruth Suckow (1892-1960)

Here is a list of Ruth Suckow's books, in chronological order.  The RSMA began discussing one book each year at our annual meeting; we looked at The Bonney Family this year (2008) and will be moving on to Cora next year (2009).

Fiction

Country People. New York: Knopf, 1924.

The Odyssey of a Nice Girl. New York: Knopf, 1925.

Iowa Interiors. New York: Knopf, 1926.

The Bonney Family. New York: Knopf, 1928.

Cora. New York: Knopf, 1929.

The Kramer Girls. New York: Knopf, 1930.

Children and Older People. New York: Knopf, 1931.

The Folks. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1934.

Carry-Over. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1936.

New Hope. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1936.

Some Others and Myself. New York: Rinehart, 1952. [short stories and "A

Memoir"]

The John Wood Case. New York: Viking, 1959.

Selected Nonfiction

"Iowa," American Mercury, 9 (Sept. 1926): 39-45.

"The Folk Idea in American Life," Scribner's Magazine, 88 (Sept. 1930): 245-55.

"Middle Western Literature," English Journal (College Edition), 21 (Mar. 1932): 175-82.

A Memoir. New York: Rinehart, 1952.

"An Almost Lost American Classic," College English, 14 (Mar. 1953): 315-25.

"The Surprising Anthony Trollope," 7he Georgia Review, 12 (Winter 1958): 388-95.

"Modem Figures of Destiny: D. H. Lawrence and Frieda Lawrence," D. H. Lawrence Review, 3 (Spring 1970): 1-30.

Selected Magazine Fiction

"The Best of the Lot," Smart Set, 69 (Nov. 1922): 5-36.

"Other People's Ambitions," Smart Set, 70 (Mar. 1923): 5-38.

"A Part of the Institution," Smart Set, 72 (Oct. 1923): 11-53.

"What Have I," Harper's, 178 (Jan. 1939): 126-37.

"A Little Girl's World," Midwest: A Literary Review, 3 (Spring 1960): 1-12.

Where can you FIND her books?
If you are looking for multiple copies of her books for a book club or school project, you can go to the following website, sponsored by the State Library Service Areas.
http://www.ilsa.lib.ia.us/bkdisc_author.htm#as

The following four titles are available for checkout from the Cedar Falls Public Library; they were donated by members of the RSMA.  (We are also actively collecting books to add to this collection, so if you have any titles by Suckow, please consider donating them

The Folks  (12 copies)
The John Woods Case  (17 copies)
Memoir                          (4 copies)
Ruth Suckow Ombibus  (4 copies)

Where can you find copies of Cora for next year's book discussion at our annual meeting?
You can use the SILO locator to find the book  (a function of the State Library website, found at http://z3950.silo.lib.ia.us/cgi-bin/zform.CGI?SILO
Then, you can borrow the book through interlibrary loan.  Cora can be checked out from 22 libraries around the state, including Clear Lake Public Library, Des Moines Public Library, Loras College Library, Hawarden Public Library, and Waterloo Public Library.

Last updated  July 13, 2008

Webmaster Cherie Dargan

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