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3 unusual facts about Dow Mossman


Dan Guenther

The film chronicled the director's attempt to revive and have republished the acclaimed book of seemingly vanished author Dow Mossman, a lifelong friend of Dan Guenther.

Dow Mossman

Following the publication of The Stones of Summer, Dow was mentally exhausted and spent several months in an Iowa sanitorium.

One of the unique elements included in the novel are poems and letters from Vietnam sent by Marine officer Dan Guenther (U.of Iowa, MFA, 1973), who later published the novels China Wind (Ivy, 1990) and Dodge City Blues (Redburn Press, 2007).



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