Donald Pizer is Pierce Butler Professor of English Emeritus at Tulane University. His works include American Naturalism and the Jews: Garland, Norris, Dreiser, Wharton, and Cather; The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism; and Theodore Dreiser: Interviews.

"Recovers many of Garland's characteristic yet neglected writings from his most important period and politically situates his better-known writings. More than a recovery project, this book should also prove to be a valuable teaching tool.”--Gary Scharnhorst, author of Bret Harte: Opening the American Literary West"Hamlin Garland, Prairie Radical recovers many of Garland's characteristic yet neglected writings from his most important period and politically situates his better-known writings, including "Under the Lion's Paw," Rose of Dutcher's Cooly, and Crumbling Idols. More than a recovery project, this book should also prove to be a valuable teaching tool."--Gary Scharnhorst, author of Bret Harte: Opening the American Literary West"A succinct entrÉe to Garland's political and social writings, giving him his due as a radical thinker and artist. There is no comparable work focusing on or collecting Garland's politically inflected fiction or nonfiction writings."--Mark Pittenger, author of American Socialists and Evolutionary Thought, 1870–1920"This collection of well-chosen and stimulating pieces may come as a surprise to many readers not familiar with Garland, and even some who are."--The Annals of Iowa "An important collection. . . . Provide[s] an illuminating approach to the impassioned and fractious issues that swirled around American life in the tumultuous 1890s."--Indiana Magazine of History "A valuable introduction to Garland's work. As a scholar with extensive experience writing about Garland and his contemporaries, Pizer serves as an authoritative guide and compiler for this particular project."--Western American Literature