Background
Sophus Keith Winther was born in the village of Søby, between Randers and Aarhus, Denmark, the son of Anton Winther and Sene (Lund) Winther.
( The Bison Book edition brings back into print the first...)
The Bison Book edition brings back into print the first of the novels comprising Sophus Keith Winter's Grimsen trilogy. The author was "born in Denmark and was brought to the United States at the age of two. Following in a large sense the history of his own family, he has put together a sensitive record of human relationships in his account of how Peter Grimsen, his wife Meta, and his sons adapt themselves to life in an unfamiliar land. Fine as they are as a human story, the three novels, Take All to Nebraska (1936), Mortgage Your Heart (1937), and This Passion Never Dies (1938), possess also an enduring significance as a case history illustrating the economic conditions of the period. . . .
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(The Bison Book edition brings back into print the first o...)
The Bison Book edition brings back into print the first of the novels comprising Sophus Keith Winter's Grimsen trilogy. The author was "born in Denmark and was brought to the United States at the age of two. Following in a large sense the history of his own family, he has put together a sensitive record of human relationships in his account of how Peter Grimsen, his wife Meta, and his sons adapt t...
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Sophus Keith Winther was born in the village of Søby, between Randers and Aarhus, Denmark, the son of Anton Winther and Sene (Lund) Winther.
Winther attended the University of Oregon where he received his Bachelor of Surgery in 1918 and his Master of Arts He went on to earn his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Washington in 1927.
The family arrived in the United States on May 6, 1895 and was naturalized in 1900. in 1919. Winther became an Instructor of English at the University of Washington during 1927. He became an assistant professor in 1930, an associate professor in 1934 and a professor in the English Department in 1940.
Winther was an author whose novels center principally on the pioneer experience in the Great Plains.
Three of his novels,,, and This Passion Never Dies (1937), portray the struggles of the Grimsen family who arrive in rural Nebraska during the 1890s. These novels illustrate the darker side of the rural experience as fluctuating grain prices drive the family into bankruptcy.
Letters, books, papers, clippings, pictures of Sophus Keith Winther can be found at The Danish American Archive and Library located on the campus of Dana College. The collection includes the manuscript of an unpublished novel of the Grimsen trilogy.
( The Bison Book edition brings back into print the first...)
(The Bison Book edition brings back into print the first o...)