Ann Weisgarber

Photographs For The Personal History Of Rachel DuPree

While writing Rachel DuPree, I relied on photographs to help me imagine my characters and their lives.  I’ve included a few here that I thought might enhance your reading experience.

 

THE SOD DUGOUT AND COOKSTOVE THAT INSPIRED THE NOVEL

Prairie Homestead Near the Badlands Park
Prairie Homestead Near Badlands National Park

 

Interior of Prairie Homestead
Interior of Prairie Homestead

 

Cookstove in the Prairie Homestead
Cookstove in the Prairie Homestead

 

THE SOUTH DAKOTA BADLANDS

Grassland and Rugged Formations
Grassland and Rugged Formations

 

Dusk in the Badlands
Dusk in the Badlands

 

Badlands Storm
Badlands Storm

 

Winter
Winter

 

HOMES IN THE WEST

The Jerry Shores Family – Nebraska 1887
The Jerry Shores Family – Nebraska 1887

 

Sod Dugout
Sod Dugout

 

 

Prized Possessions
Prized Possessions

 

BUFFALO SOLDIERS

Buffalo Soldier
Buffalo Soldier (I used this when describing a photograph of Isaac DuPree.)

 

Soldiers-In-American-West
Soldiers in the American West

 

 

HISTORICAL PEOPLE IN THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF RACHEL DUPREE

Ida-Wells-Barnett
Ida B. Wells Barnett

 

Paul Laurence Dunbar
Paul Laurence Dunbar

 

Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington

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    - The Glovemaker is the 2020 WILLA Literary Award Winner in Historical Fiction.

    - The Glovemaker is one of two finalists for the 2019 David J. Langum Prize in American Historical Fiction.

    - The Glovemaker is one of four finalists for the 2019 Association for Mormon Letters Novel Prize.

    - The Glovemaker is one of two finalists for the 2020 Western Writers of America Spur Award for Best Western Historical Novel.

    - Ann's third novel, The Glovemaker, was released in February 2019 by Mantle/Pan Macmillan in the United Kingdom, Skyhorse Publishing in the United States, and Nagel & Kimche in Germany.

    - The Glovemaker was published by Neri Pozza in Italy in July 2019. The Personal History of Rachel DuPree is forthcoming.

    -Viola Davis's JuVee Productions options the film rights for The Personal History of Rachel DuPree.

  • Reviews

    The Glovemaker

    "The Glovemaker, Ann Weisgarber’s engrossing, troubling, honest-to-goodness third novel, is as stark and touching as the lives described, as tense and testing as the Utah backlands where it’s set, as fine as any fiction you will read this year.”

    -Jim Crace, author of The Melody and Harvest.

    The Promise

    "Set against the worst natural disaster in twentieth century American history, The Promise is a riveting tale, told in lean luminous prose, of the power of love and the frailty of the human condition.(Weisgarber’s) characters will live in your imagination long after you've turned the last deeply moving page.”

    - Ellen Feldman,
    author of Next to Love, Scottsboro, The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank, and Lucy.

    The Personal History
    of Rachel DuPree

    "An indelibly affecting teaching story: How unchecked selfish desires, regardless of their origins in historical cruelty and deprivation, lead inevitably to suffering. A suffering that can be alleviated only by the realization of a pure love for others greater than one's desires for self. Rachel and Isaac DuPree and their tiny, vulnerable family stand as monuments to the forgotten millions of brutal, spirit deforming choices made and endured by so many brave and deeply wounded Americans."

    -Alice Walker,
    author of The Color Purple

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