Susanne George Bloomfield's ten books include three biographies published by the University of Nebraska Press: "Impertinences: Selected Editorials of Elia W. Peattie, A Journalist in the Gilded Age" (2005); "Kate M. Cleary: A Literary Biography with Selected Works" (1997); and "The Adventures of the Woman Homesteader: The Life and Letters of Elinore Pruitt Stewart" (1993). Just last year, Nebraska also published "Adventures in the West: Stories for Young Readers," co-edited with graduate student Eric Reed, an anthology of selections from children's magazines at the turn of the last century."Impertinences" has received two awards, the WILLA award for Nonfiction from Women Writing the West and the Nebraska Book Award for Nonfiction; Kate Cleary received the Susan Koppleman Award and was a finalist for the Society of Midland Authors' Biography Award. The Mari Sandoz Society and the Center for Great Plains Studies published her monograph, "Absolutely No Manners: On Having the Audacity to Write Biography." Bloomfield is Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Kearney, where she holds the Martin Distinguished Professorship. She's also past president of the Western Literature Association.
Bloomfield will speak on the Equality State Book Festival panel, "Plucking Meaning from Wyoming's Past" at 2:45 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 18, at the Fort Caspar Museum and will be available to sign books after the panel.
