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Retrospective Reviews
in Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History

The Retrospective Review column appears in each issue of Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History, the quarterly publication of the Washington State Historical Society. The column reassess vintage works of Northwest literature, all of which have contributed to the region's literary legacy, while also profiling the authors of these works, all of whom participated in the early literary life of the Northwest.

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The Novels of Mary Brinker Post

The Novels of Melvin Levy

The Seattle Writers' Club

The Novels of Alan Hart

The Memoirs of Charlotte Paul

The Works of Margaret Thompson

 

Edna Ferber's Great Son

 

The Novels of William Attaway



Northwest Anthologies

The Inland Novels of Nard Jones

The Coastal Novels of Nard Jones



The Island Memoirs of Hazel Heckman

Forthcoming Fall 2009

 




The Palouse Novels of Elizabeth Marion

Forthcoming Winter 2008-09

 

 


The Novels of Ida Woodruff Anderson

Forthcoming Spring 2009
 

 

 

The Young Adult Novels of Reed Fulton

 


Forthcoming Summer 2009

 

 


The Northwest Chronicles
of Floyd Schmoe