Who Wrote Those Letters?: In Search of Jrnjakob Swehn

By Eldon Knuth

Book Overview

For seventy years after the publication in Germany in 1917 of Johannes Gillhoff's best seller "J rnjakob Swehn -- der Amerikafahrer" (translated recently into English with the title "Letters of a German American Farmer") the readers of the book debated whether It was fact or fiction - and, if fact, who wrote those immigrant letters from Iowa back to his teacher in Germany. The present book is a factual narrative of the ten-year search which in 1988 revealed the true identity of J rnjakob Swehn and showed that most of the book is fact. The narrative documents how Swehn's family fared of five previously unpublished letters to Iowa from the Gillhoff family.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1420834789
• ISBN13: 9781420834789
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Authorhouse
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"