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University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242 Copyright (c) 1988 by the University of Iowa All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America
Book and cover design by Richard Hendel
No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, without permission in writing from the publisher.
"Susan and the Doctor," "What Have I?" "A Great Mollie'' (originally "Strong as a Man''), "Midwestern Primitive," and "The Little Girl from Town" originally appeared in Harper's Monthly Magazine. "Home-coming," "The Crick," and "Three, Counting the Cat" originally appeared in Good Housekeeping. "A Part of the Institution" originally appeared in the Smart Set, "Visiting" in the Pictorial Review, and "The Man of the Family" in the American Mercury.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Suckow, Ruth, 1892-1960. A Ruth Suckow omnibus / by Ruth Suckow; with a new introduction by Clarence A. Andrews.1st ed. p. cm.(A Bur oak book) Short stories reprinted from various periodicals. Contents: Ruth Suckow / by Clarence A. AndrewsSusan and the doctorHome-comingA part of the institutionVisitingThe crick What have I?A great MollieThree, counting the catMidwest primitiveThe little girl from townThe man of the family. ISBN 0-87745-207-5 (pbk.) I. Title. II. Series. PS3537.U34A6 1988 813'.52-dc19 88-15059 01 00 99 98 97 96 P 5 4 3 2 CIP
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Contents
Ruth Suckow
by Clarence A. Andrews
ix
Susan and the Doctor
1
Home-coming
29
A Part of the Institution
51
Visiting
140
The Crick
163
What Have I?
185
A Great Mollie
209
Three, Counting the Cat
231
Midwestern Primitive
249
The Little Girl from Town
271
The Man of the Family
293
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Ruth Suckow
By Clarence A. Andrews
The small town, the family farm, and the close-knit family of several generations are disappearing from America. But once they were mainstays of a way of life that, along with our concept of democracy, helped our country's experiment in social and political organization work.
Ruth Suckow was the fictional delineator of that way of lifethe transitional era between the initial settlement and development of the midwestern frontier, and the creation and development of social concepts and technological innovations that were to point the way to our present social state.
Short-story writer, essayist, and novelist, Suckow (1892-1960) was born in Hawarden, Iowa, a newly settled town in the northwest corner of the state. Through her parents' German immigrant ancestors, she got a glimpse of the Old World; in the town and countryside, she watched the transition from the frontier to an organized society. In the nine Iowa towns in which she grew up as her Congregational minister father took over successive pastorates, she saw other towns of varying sizes in various stages of growth and development. Author and editor Frank Luther Mott, one of the developers of the university's Iowa Writers' Workshop, commented, "Probably the three best vantage points from which one [might] observe life in midwestern small towns are the office of the local newspaper, the doctor's office and the parsonage; and so Miss Suckow (who must have had very sharp eyes from childhood) was advantageously placed."
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But Suckow did not write from such a limited background. After high school, she was educated at Grinnell College (where James Norman Hall, another well-known Iowa writer, graduated the year Suckow matriculated there) and in Boston and Denver. She later lived near the campus of Iowa State Teachers College in Cedar Falls; in Chicago; in Greenwich Village; in Robert Frost's Vermont home; in Tucson, Arizona; in Yaddo, a New York writers' colony; and finally in Claremont, California. Thus she was able to bring to her fiction the viewpoint of one who had traveled much and had a great variety of social experiences.
At the University of Denver, where she earned an M.A. in English, and at the University of Iowa, where she spent a year under the tutelage of John Towner Frederick, Suckow was exposed to concepts about the nature and role of fiction which were to play an important part in twentieth-century fiction and literary criticism. Frederick, a novelist in his own right and an editor and critic as well, was instrumental in the development of a great many young midwestern writers. He taught them to base their fiction on their observations of the life around themon farms or in towns and cities. Fiction was to consist of a slice of life with no formulaic beginnings, middles, and endings. Frederick published many stories by these writers in his
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