George and Barbara Perkins

George and Barbara's THE AMERICAN TRADITION IN LITERATURE, 12th edition, 2009, is a revised version of a standard textbook primarily intended for colleges and universities that also boasts a long history of high school usage.

RARE DAYS IN LOST VALLEY, a comic novel about life in academia, and STONES STAND, WATERS FLOW, a memoir and history, are George's most recent solo books.

Selected Works

Fiction
Rare Days in Lost Valley: The Bellwether University Book of Universal Truths
A comic novel about Ann Arbor, the University of Michigan, a scholarly conference in Ohio, love, fraud, a pit bull, and a cigar store Indian.
Memoir and History
Stones Stand, Waters Flow
New England life and history with focus on Burlington, Massachusetts from colonial times through the 1950s
The American Tradition in Literature
A history and anthology, available in both a two volume complete edition and a shorter, one volume concise edition
The HarperCollins Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature
The most comprehensive single-volume guide to American literature.
The Harper Handbook to Literature
A guide to history, terms, and concepts.
Kaleidoscope: Stories of the American Experience
A multicultural reader.

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Writing, reviewing, technical writing, copy-editing, proof-reading, screen-writing, videos, art.
George Perkins Facebook
A link to the Perkins Facebook, and through it to selected family members, readers, and scholars.
Primis American Tradition in Literature: A site where instructors may build their own textbooks or modify the McGraw Hill book they currently use.
The International Society for the Study of Narrative
An international scholarly society that sponsors a journal, NARRATIVE, an annual conference, an e-mail discussion list, and the annual BARBARA PERKINS & GEORGE PERKINS AWARD for the best book in narrative studies.
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