All Over the Map

<p class=ql-align-justify>On January 4 1904 The Kansas Author's Club was organized by a group of Topeka writers although it did not take its name until 1905. A local Authors Club had met in Topeka during November and December of 1903.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>  Three well-known District 1 members at the club's inception were Gov. Arthur Capper publisher; Margaret Hill McCarter best-selling novelist; and Eugene Fitch Ware politician/newspaper editor/poet also known as Ironquill. </p><p class=ql-align-justify>  Other famous District 1 members have included Gwendolyn Brooks Langston Hughes Frank Pitts MacLennan Dr. Karl A. Menninger Lilla Day Monroe Senator George P. Morehouse and Rev. Charles M. Sheldon.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>  The writers featured in this anthology are blazing their own local paths to recognition...paths that will no doubt expand with the publication of samples of their work herein.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>  District 1 of Kansas Authors Club a non-profit organization is proud of its heritage and welcomes current and future authors into its fold. </p><p><br></p>