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Creation of an Artist is a fascinating look into the life of well known artist Grant Wood. This insightful book is almost entirely based on Grant Wood's own words and art. Early events were dictated to his secretary, Park Rinard, in an incomplete and therefore unpublished autobiography, Return from Bohemia. Other details were mentioned in letters Wood wrote as a ten-year-old boy, just after moving to Cedar Rapids from rural Iowa.

At the crossroads of two cultural icons exists Jay Sigmund, born near the Wapsipinicon River in Waubeek, Iowa. As the Regionalist movement was in full swing guess who had an enormous influence on well-known artist Grant Wood? Jay Sigmund! Also at this time, a paperboy in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was working on his interests in poetry with Jay Sigmund--this paperboy was Paul Engle, who later went on to co-create and direct the Iowa Writers' Workshop...