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Walter J. Muilenburg

Personal life

Muilenburg was born to John and Gertrude (Van Rooyan) Muilenburg near Orange City, Iowa, in August 1893. Prior to his birth, the Muilenburg family lived in the area for 20 years. It is likely that Muilenburg's family was not wealthy because of how much land they worked on. Muilenburg and his siblings received high school diplomas at a time when children in Siouxland normally only attended school up to the eighth grade, and they all attended college. He attended the University of Iowa and his brother James Muilenburg attended Yale University. Muilenburg graduated from the University of Iowa in 1915. He met his friend John T. Frederick while in college.

Early career

Muilenburg composed short stories with Percival Hunt, and two of those stories were published in The Midland's first volume. After graduating from college, Muilenburg worked for newspapers and taught high school in Iowa and Michigan. He worked at the University of Iowa as an English professor, and he later became an associate professor of English at Michigan State College. His short stories have been included in the Best Short Stories of 1915 and 1916, and some of his stories have received translations. His novel Prairie was published in 1925 by Viking Press.