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In 1956, MacKinlay Kantor, who was born and raised in Webster City, Iowa, earned a Pulitzer Prize for his novel Andersonville. Many said that it, along with Gone with the Wind, were the foremost novels of the 20th century that concerned the Civil War. Kantor's writings were also the basis of the Academy Award-winning film The Best Years of Our Lives, which dealt with returning World War II veterans, and he documented Native American conflict in northwest Iowa in his book Spirit Lake. Throughout his life, Kantor retained a strong relationship with Iowa and his hometown. That is the basis for Paul Juhl's presentation.

A longtime Iowa City resident, Juhl is originally from Webster City and grew up knowing the people and places of Kantor's childhood. Juhl is an Iowa historian who has a special interest in 19th-century photography, but he enjoys researching and writing about a variety of topics.

Take this opportunity to learn about novelist and screenwriter MacKinlay Kantor, who spent many hours researching in the State Historical Society of Iowa's collections.