"Home Country" by Ernie Pyle

One of five such compilations by Pulitzer-Prize-winner Ernie Pyle, Home Country contains columns Pyle wrote between 1935 and 1940 before he left for Britain to cover the war in Europe. This collection focuses on his travels throughout America recording interactions with the common people off backroads and remote areas, as well as in cities. From an article by the Indiana Historical Society: "Ernie Pyle, born near Dana in 1900, was a newspaper columnist during World War II. He attended Indiana University but left before graduating to take a job at the LaPorte Herald, a northern Indiana newspaper. Around this time, Ernie met his wife, Geraldine, and they were married in 1925. Ernie eventually got a job with the Scripps-Howard newspapers as a columnist. He and his wife traveled the country during the Great Depression and wrote columns describing life in America at that time. When war broke out in Europe, Pyle went to England to cover the Battle of Britain in 1940. When America entered th