After thirty-six years as book-editor in New York, Robin retires and moves back to her girlhood home in Ohio. She takes with her copies of items she had kept in a special file. A Hall of Fame for Unknown Writers is Robin's story as she reproduces the comic items and nominates them for induction into America's first (and only) hall of fame for unknown writers.

After thirty-six years as book-editor in New York, Robin retires and moves back to her girlhood home in Oberlin, Ohio. She takes with her copies of items she had kept in a special file. The items had come not from literary agents but directly from writers, reflecting their quirky, original, creative, passionate, ironic, even bizarre voices. All the items enlighten and entertain.

A Hall of Fame for Unknown Writers is Robin’s story as she reproduces the comic items and nominates them for induction into America’s first (and only) hall of fame for unknown writers, where the motto reads: “We’re in Kansas forevermore.”