Lima in Literature
Published authors from Lima have produced poetry collections, scholarly works, novels and memoirs.
- Harry Halsey Starrett was a Lima poet during the 1950s and 1960s.
- Marilyn R. Stark has produced novels (e.g., Broken Arrow, Broken Promises) and historical nonfiction (e.g. 'Lima/Allen County, Ohio: a Pictorial History').
- Lynn Lauber, a New York City novelist, wrote 21 Sugar Street and White Girls, both somewhat fictionalizing her Lima growing-up years during the 1960s (in "Union, Ohio").
- Dr.Emmett Murray Jr. ("Duke"), a popular family physician, published two books of Lima-based memoirs: Come Remnisce with Me (2003) and In the Company of Friends (2008). In a tribute piece, the Allen County Museum website called him "the Mark Twain of Lima."
- Duane W. Roller, who endured Lima for over 20 years, has written ten books on ancient Greece and Rome, and is a three-time Fulbright scholar.
- Phyllis Diller published an autobiography, Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse, that describes her downtown Lima girlhood in detail.
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