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Authors & Books
The banked build carried its historians in passing and printed one general letters negative in Notable People. This addendum does the work the audit asked for: the historians first, carried by named bibliographies of titles and dates, and then every other class on the checklist — novelists, poets, children's and nature writers, genre writers, screenwriters, memoirists, comics writers and the local shelf — tested name by name against the Clay and Harris township line. The result is not the empty shelf the old negative implied, and it is not a borrowed South Bend shelf either. Most of the famous names grade out as neighbours: born in the city of South Bend, seated at the universities across the line. Two genuine resident authors of national record do stand on this ground, and they are named at their proven strength.
Works first: the historians of this ground, carried by their bibliographies
1880–2012 · THE COUNTY AND TOWNSHIP HISTORIES
The historians are counted here as authors in their own right, first, before any novelist — and each is carried by titles and dates, not by biography alone. First, the Chapman county history: History of St. Joseph County…
Novelists, graded by exact tie, in the open
1998–2026 · THE FICTION TEST
The novelist test was run name by name through the Indiana Authors record, publisher biographies and the Booker and National Book Award rolls, and every famous tie grades out at the same place: the city of South Bend, not this…
The poetry line as a succession — across the line, and the one judge-poet
1905–PRESENT · SAINT MARY'S, NOTRE DAME, AND THE COUNTY LINE
The poetry succession the checklist names is real, and its seat is printed honestly: Saint Mary's College and the University of Notre Dame stand in the Notre Dame CDP, across the line from Granger, so the succession is carried at…
Children's, young-reader, nature and field-guide writing, as its own cluster
1973–2021 · GRADED, NAME BY NAME
Each member of the checklist's cluster was graded at the source, and each grades to the neighbouring city or the campus — except the cluster's last seat, which is filled from this ground. The historian for young readers: Phillip…
Prolific genre and popular lines, at true strength
1977–PRESENT · THE CAMPUS SEAT AND THE ALUMNUS, EACH AT ITS OWN SIZE
The hundred-book author stands at a campus seat, across the line, and is carried at that strength and no more. Ralph McInerny (February 24, 1929 – January 29, 2010), born in Minneapolis, professor of philosophy at Notre Dame from…
Screenwriters, carried as authors, with the writing credits named
1911–PRESENT · TWO SOUTH BEND BIRTHS, CREDITS NAMED
Notable People tested actors and screen figures and never tested writers as a class. The class is tested now, through the Writers Guild of America and AFI-catalogue-derived records, and both names grade to the city of South Bend.…
The public official as memoirist, and a national name's newspaper years
1905–2019 · THE MAYOR ACROSS THE LINE; NO MAYOR HERE
Granger has no mayor and never has had one — it is an unincorporated census-designated place governed through two township trustees and the county — so the mayor's memoir stands, as it must, at boundary size, and it is a…
Comics authorship, credited as literature
1955–PRESENT · THE STRIP WRITTEN FROM A PAPER ROUTE — THE ROUTE GRADED
The comics test names Jerry Scott (born May 2, 1955, in South Bend), and the paper-route story at the checklist's heart verifies — with its geography graded in the open. Scott's own account, given to the Juneau Empire in 2018 and…
The local shelf, whole — picture books, museum books, and the county's own keeping
1875–PRESENT · THE SHELF SWEPT, NOT SAMPLED
The local shelf is swept here in its three parts. Picture books first — and the shelf's strongest picture book belongs, once again, to a graded neighbour: Susan Choi's Camp Tiger (2019, illustrated by John Rocco), a South…