Going to Grinnell: A Californians Four Years at an Iowa College

"It is the end of the Eisenhower Administration, and a lively West Coast amateur actor-musician is looking for a college which meets his predilections: The last thing he wants is 'studies-are-everything' pressure in his college experience. And yet, he selects far-off Grinnell College, rural but rigorous, famous for academic excellence. Felton joins the growing group of artistic outcasts at Grinnell, choosing to live in off-campus digs, and eschewing the rah-rah frivolity seen in the more conventional undergraduate life. With perennial fear of having made the wrong choices in this highly-rated institution, a unique life at Grinnell instead prepares the author for the post-graduate vagaries of peddling a talent. Going to Grinnell! describes four years of life and love lived in picaresque-novel fashion, which by great good luck turns out to be just the right ticket for a young person searching for the vivid variety of life's options."