Kaffee und Kuchen: Ruth Suckow's Iowa

Join us to celebrate the opening of Everyday Lives, Extraordinary Voices: Ruth Suckow's Iowa. with Dr. Barbara Lounsberry, President of the Ruth Suckow Memorial Association. This program will share the extraordinary back-story of too-little-known Iowa German American writer Ruth Suckow: the shadow over her early life; her surprising love story; the bee-keeping business that supported her first days as a writer; her brief stay in Davenport; her friendship with Robert Frost, Grant Wood, and H. L. Mencken--interwoven with the German American life she weaves into her 9 novels and 43 short stories.

1:30 refreshments
2:00 program

This program is free for museum members and included in regular admission for non-members.

Donations are always appreciated.

About the Speaker

Born and raised in Iowa, Barbara Lounsberry is an Emerita Professor of English at the University of Northern Iowa and President of the international Ruth Suckow Memorial Association. She has written books on literature and writing, and had the fun of editing three mystery novels set in Iowa, with each chapter written by a different Iowa author. The first novel, Time and Chance, revolves around Mississippi riverboat gambling; the second, 16,000 Suspects: A RAGBRAI Mystery, is set during Iowa's famous bicycle ride across the state. Politics is Murder, the third detective novel, unfolds during the 2002 Iowa's governor's race. Lounsberry has also published 7 scholarly books, her latest an award-winning trilogy on Virginia Woolf and diaries: Becoming Virginia Woolf; Virginia Woolf’s Modernist Path; and Virginia Woolf, The War Without, The War Within.

“Lounsberry’s years of meditation on her subject can be felt. . . . In the passionate diary reader we find here, Barbara Lounsberry has brought to life one more Virginia Woolf.”

- Times Literary Supplement

“Barbara Lounsberry has done for [Virginia] Woolf’s diaries what the diaries once did for Woolf’s novels, and what all great literary criticism seeks to do: it takes a canonical work of literature and offers an entirely new way of seeing it.”

- New Republic

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Guests are welcome to bring their own mugs if they wish. Disposable cups are provided, but help us reduce waste and bring a favorite mug!

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