A Treasury of American Anecdotes Author:B. A. Botkin Ben Botkin describes himself as "a Bostonian by birth, an Oklahoman by adoption, and a Yorker by preference; a teacher of English by training, a collector by temperament, and a folklorist by persuasion." For many years he has been collecting "floating" literature for an anecdotal history of America and for a book on subliterature, showing the A... more »merican popular and folk imagination at work on the stuff of the American experience. As former professor of English at the University of Oklahoma, National Folklore Director of the Federal Writers' Project, cheif of the Archive of Folksong in the Library of Congress, and the editor of seventeen previous volumes of American folklore and folksay, he has covered every phase of collecting, studying, and winnowing anecdotes in every region and almost every state.« less