Critics such as Robert C. Wright have called Frederick Manfred the "midwest's William Faulkner." Like Faulkner, who created the mythical Yoknapatawpha County, Manfred produced a mythic and fictional v...
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Frederick Manfred has had two careers as a writer: the first as a writer primarily identified with the Midwest, but in the autobiographical tradition of Thomas Wolfe; the second as a writer identified...
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Throughout a writing career that spanned half a century, Frederick Manfred rarely felt himself successful. In 1981, on the eve of his seventieth birthday, he wrote to one friend that despite twenty-fi...
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Frederick (Feikema) Manfred