One of the best-known makers of magazine literature is Hamlin Garland,
who was born in West Salem, Wisconsin, September 16, 1860, of
English-Dutch parentage. In 1881 his studies were completed in Cedar
Valley seminary, Wisconsin, and he next spent some years in traveling
and teaching in the east. Later he took the lecture platform, was an
occasional writer of sketches and short stories, and spent some time in
Boston studying and teaching. He is an ardent advocate of the single
tax doctrine and several of his works have to do with the struggles of
the poor against existing conditions. He has also written a number of
books of fiction.