@article{ref1,
title="Lockridge family histories: looking for the raintree",
journal="Rethinking History",
year="2017",
author="Sandweiss, E.",
volume="21",
number="1",
pages="103-119",
abstract="Novelist Ross Lockridge, Jr., killed himself months after the publication of his highly publicized novel, Raintree County. Why? This article seeks an answer in the writer's conflicted relationship to History: of his country, of his family (including his father, the best-known historian in his home state of Indiana), of his own grand ambitions. Lockridge had crafted a fictional hero, Johnny Shawnessy, who sought to 'hear the words before the words become History.' For the writer himself-and, subsequently, for his children, who carry on the family quest to reveal historical truth-History has proved a harder burden to overcome. © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1364-2529",
doi="10.1080/13642529.2016.1270564",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13642529.2016.1270564"
}