Will Lillibridge was born on 1 January 1878 and died on 1 January 1909.
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A Breath of Prairie and other stories, first published in 1898, gathers short fiction by Will Lillibridge, the Sioux Falls dentist and novelist, introduced by a tribute from Edith Keller-Lillibridge. Stories of the Dakota plains …
See detailsWill Lillibridge was born on 1 January 1878 and died on 1 January 1909.
Not established. No portrait with a verified licence was used. Details that the consulted sources do not state (for example education or family) are not supplied here.
A Breath of Prairie and other stories, first published in 1898, gathers short fiction by Will Lillibridge, the Sioux Falls dentist and novelist, introduced by a tribute from Edith Keller-Lillibridge. Stories of the Dakota plains …
See detailsLived: 1878 – 1909 · Victorian era
The year 1898 falls in the later half of the Victorian era, the long reign of Queen Victoria, when the era's final decades overlapped with the early Belle Époque of continental Europe. It was a period that prized a high standard of personal conduct, and its emphasis on morality drove social reform even as it restricted some groups' liberty. Prosperity rose, literacy and childhood education became near-universal in G…
A Breath of Prairie and other storiesRead in 2026, A Breath of Prairie and other stories sits at an interesting distance from its author. Will Lillibridge was a Sioux Falls dentist and novelist who died young, and his five novels, among them Ben Blair and The Dominant Dollar, are now the main record of a writing life cut short. The tribute by Edith Keller-Lillibridge that opens the volume invites us to treat the stories as the work of a particular man …
A Breath of Prairie and other stories