On the 'Net: Our Writers in Corvallis, Oregon
Louis Albert Brooks. The most prolific writer in Corvallis, ever, was Louis Albert Brooks, who published 55 books. Now nearly forgotten, he was once the nation's religious leader.
Margaret Bailey, in 1854, was the first Oregon woman writer and her Grains was savaged by the Oregonian solely because she was divorced.
Charles Erskine Scott Wood really does not belong here, since listing him as a writer misstates him. Listed by the state as the most interesting Oregonian ever, he was intimate to Chief Joseph, whose speech he recorded, to Mark Twain, whose 1601 he illicitly published on the press at West Point, where he was adjutant, and to Emma Goldman, whose lawyer he was in Oregon.
Frances Auretta Fuller Victor. The earliest local writer to be published widely was Frances Fuller Victor, whose friendship with early American immigrants into Oregon, like Joe Meek, afforded her the chance to record their histories. She later became one of the leading suffragettes in Oregon.
William Stafford, Oregon Poet Laureate
