Simon Johnson papers, 1907-1925

Simon Johnson papers, 1907-1925

P0549

1907-1925

Short stories, novels, and poems in print and in typescript by a Norwegian-born novelist, short story writer, poet, and editor. Johnson, called "The Poet of the Prairie," wrote Et geni (1907), Lonea (1909), I et nyt rike (1914), Fire fortæIlinger (1917), Fallitten paa Braastad (1922), and Frihetens hjem (1925). He was editor of the Grand Forks Normanden, and co-editor of Decorah-Posten. "An Immigrant Boy on the Frontier" by Johnson, translated by Nora Solum, appeared in Studies, volume 23, 1967.

2.4 cubic feet (6 archives boxes)

Manuscripts