Volume 13, Number 1 (1940) The Purple Pen
Front Matter
Nonfiction
Allusions in Paul Engle's Poetry
Wilma Isley
Fiction
Election Day, 1860
Marguerite Tinsley
Florien Slappey
Gordon Sanders
Dead Men's Shoes
Virginia Nauman
Trouble Came
Jack J. Graber
Going Home for Christmas
Mona Jane Van Duyn
The Magic Hat
Hattie Bock
Dis Science (Illustrated)
Margaret L. Anderson
Poetry
Prairie (Illustrated)
Selma Williams
There's a Salt Wind Blowing
Gwendolyn Wescott
Orchesis (Illustrated)
Jeanette Little
Probable Fifth Column
Dugan Laird
The Girl Takes Stock of Nineteen Years
Mona Jane Van Duyn
Art
Match Point
James Van Houten
Prose
Fall Plowing
Roland E. Mitchell
A Day Begins
Julia Entz
Eliza Switzer
Winifred McMillan
Editors
- Editor-in-Chief
- Dorothy Jean Tostlebe
- Business Manager
- Dorothy B. Johnson
- Faculty Adviser
- Selina M. Terry
