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Herbert K. Russell

Born: 1943 in Shelbyville, Illinois
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Russell lives in Carbondale.

Biography: Herbert K. Russell is the retired director for college relations at John A. Logan College, Carterville, Illinois. He is acknowledged as the foremost authority on Masters and has publishd numerous articles about Masters in scholarly journals and reference works. Russell is the first scholar to be allowed to read and quote from all of Masters's diaries, his correspondence, and the unpublished chapters of his 1936 autobiography ''Across Spoon River''. He is the editor of ''The Enduring River: Edgar Lee Masters' Uncollected Spoon River Poems'' and is the author of various publications concerning Illinois subjects including ''Edgar Lee Masters: A Biography''. Russell's works have received various recognitions; research awards have come from tehe Newberry Library and National Endowment for the Humanities.


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Primary Literary Genre(s): Non-Fiction

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Herbert K. Russell on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=herbert+k.+russell


Selected Titles

A southern Illinois album :
ISBN: 0809315882 OCLC: 19515985

Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale : ©1990.

Featured in this book are more than one hundred photographs from the collection of a quarter of a million taken by FSA photographers between 1935 and 1943. These pictures capture life during the Great Depression as viewed in the coal-mining towns of Herrin, West Frankfort, and Zeigler; the river communities of Shawneetown, Cairo, and Grayville; the farming regions near McLeansboro, Newton, and Harrisburg-- more than two dozen southern Illinois county seats, hamlets, and landings. Together they comprise a photographic portrait of the determination, hard work, and capacity to find ways to celebrate life exemplified by the people of southern Illinois during one of the most difficult periods of American history. FSA photographers helped to invent and popularize the documentary style, a type of photography in which pictures and their arrangement carry much of the information in a story. Intended to document the success of a government project, these pictures survived to preserve for later generations the story of the people of southern Illinois and how they endured the difficult times of the Great Depression--Publisher's website.

Edgar Lee Masters :
ISBN: 0252073142 OCLC: 247279249

University of Illinois Press, Urbana : c 2001.

The state of southern Illinois :
ISBN: 0809330563 OCLC: 801409252

Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale : ©2012.

In The State of Southern Illinois: An Illustrated History, Herbert K. Russell offers fresh interpretations of a number of important aspects of Southern Illinois history. Focusing on the area known as "Egypt," the region south of U.S. Route 50 from Salem south to Cairo, he begins his book with the earliest geologic formations and follows Southern Illinois's history into the twenty-first century. The volume is richly illustrated with maps and photographs, mostly in color, that highlight the informative and straightforward text. Perhaps most notable is the author's use.

 

 

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