Literary Kansas

The Kansas Author Adventures Trail features four very successful but incredibly diverse writers who are remembered by a museum exhibit, a theater arts center, an “oz-some” collection, and a one-room cabin, among other things.

Drink in the spare beauty of the farmland, the sunflowers, and the big skies of Kansas, and watch out for tornadoes!

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A. L. Frank Baum, Wamego
B. Langston Hughes, Lawrence
C. Gordon Parks, Fort Scott (page in development)
D. William Inge, Independence
E. Laura Ingalls Wilder, Independence

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