When Mari Sandoz, chronicler of frontier life, fled the Sandhills of Nebraska, she found fertile creative ground among the poets and artists of Lincoln. Exploring her world.
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In 1915, she enrolled at Nebraska Wesleyan. She caught typhoid fever and spent part of her sophomore year at St. Elizabeth Hospital – an environment, Cypert says, that would figure prominently in several of her novels.
A vote to put Malcolm X into the Nebraska Hall of Fame was the latest chapter in Ron Hull’s frequently star-crossed, doggedly optimistic and oh-so-Nebraska life.