Barbara Land earned a B.A. from the University of
Miami and a M.A. from Columbia University. She worked as a reporter
for the Miami Herald from 1940-1947, then moved to New York City to
work as a reporter for Life magazine in 1948. A year later she
began working in advertising for Cunningham & Walsh, Inc., before
becoming a fashion reporter for the New York Times in 1955. She has
written nonfiction books for children and adults. Land was inducted
into the Nevada Writer’s Hall of Fame in 1996 along with her
husband and literary collaborator Myrick Land, who died in 1998.
She lives in Reno.
Myrick Land (1922-1998) served in the Army Air
Corps during World War II, then graduated from the University of
California at Los Angeles in 1945. He received a master's degree
from Columbia University in 1946. During the 1960s and early '70s,
he was senior editor and assistant managing editor of Look magazine
in New York. Land came to Reno in 1976 as an assistant journalism
professor in the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of
Nevada, Reno retiring in 1993. He was inducted into the Nevada
Writer’s Hall of Fame in 1996, along with his wife and literary
collaborator, Barbara Land.
“A Short History of Reno is the liveliest history of ‘The Biggest
Little City in the World’ that you’re likely to read…I did not
realize how rich my own Reno was until I read this book.” —Robert
Laxalt
“Barbara and Myrick Land introduce us to a parade of colorful
rascals, scoundrels, and scalawags—pioneers, dreamers, and
visionaries, most of whom fit into several of these categories
simultaneously.”—Tad Dunbar, News Anchor, KOLO-TV
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