- Prairie Lights
Prairie Lights is an
independent bookstore in downtownIowa City, Iowa , founded in 1978, by Jim Harris.In 1982, the store moved from South Linn Street to its present location on South Dubuque Street, the site of a coffee house that had in the 1930s hosted a local literary society and its guests, who included
Carl Sandburg ,Robert Frost ,Langston Hughes ,Sherwood Anderson ,E. E. Cummings and others.As one of
Iowa 's largest bookstores and the major independent bookstore in the hometown of theIowa Writers' Workshop , the building continues to play a role in its region's literary culture.External links
* [http://www.prairielightsbooks.com/ Official Web site]
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