It is 1883, and America is at a crossroads. At a tiny college in Upstate New York, an idealistic young professor has managed to convince Mark Twain, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Confederate memoirist Forrest Taylor, and romance novelist Lucy Comstock to participate in the first (and last) Auburn Writers’ Conference for a public discussion about the future of the nation. By turns brilliantly comic and startlingly prescient, The Auburn Conference vibrates with questions as alive and urgent today as they were in 1883—the chronic American conundrums of race, class, and gender, and the fate of the democratic ideal.
- ISBN13 9781609388812
- Publish Date 15 May 2023 (first published 2 May 2023)
- Publish Status Inactive
- Out of Print 15 December 2022
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Iowa Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 200
- Language English