Chicago Tribune features author Ervin Krause

Ervin Krause, left, and his brother, Gerald.
Photo credit: Ervin Krause, left, and his brother, Gerald. | Photo credit: Krause family photo / Marlene Krause

September 28, 2015 by Carson Vaughan (B.A. 2010)

Chicago Tribune prominently featured Nebraska author Ervin Krause, who studied literature and creative writing in UNL's English graduate program in the 1960s. The article, "A look back at the underappreciated work of Ervin Krause," was written by former UNL student Carson Vaughan (B.A. 2010), in recognition of Krause's first collection of short stories You Will Never See Any God, which was published 44 years after his death. Timothy Schaffert, UNL Associate Professor of English, edited the collection and wrote the introduction; the collection was published by University of Nebraska Press last year. 

Cover image of You Will Never See Any God, written by Ervin Krause and edited by Timothy Schaffert
Cover image of Krause's first collection, You Will Never See Any God

In addition to Vaughan's article, Chicago Tribune also published Krause's short story "The Right Hand," which originally appeared in Prairie Schooner, and featured correspondence from the Ervin Krause materials in the Archives and Special Collections of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries.

Read the full article on Chicago Tribune's website, or download it as a PDF document.

For more on Ervin Krause, explore his section of Lost Writers of the Plains, a series of radio essays produced by NET Radio and the Center for Great Plains Studies' Plains Humanities Alliance.