Learning to Fly: A Writer's Memoir
Two years before her death in 2005, Mary Lee Settle sat down "to trace the way that led me into the writer I have been for fifty years." The result is this memoir, which picks up her life story where Addie (1998) left it, with a girl turning twenty, head over heels in love with the language of Shakespeare and determined to be an actress. That summer of 1938 her mother sends Mary Lee off to a theater apprenticeship, inadvertently setting her on a road few women of that era would have dared to travel. The road will lead to serious, "uncompromised" writing and over twenty books, including her masterwork, The Beulah Quintet. The adventures along the way--from the glamour of New York during the World's Fair, through the terrors of London during the Blitz, to the trials and triumphs of the postwar literary world--will delight, inform, and alarm the reader of this thoroughly modern Canterbury Tale.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0393057321
ISBN13:9780393057324
Release Date:August 2007
Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company
Length:240 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.2" x 8.3"
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Wonderful Cultural History
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 14 years ago
Filled with humor and grace, a wonderfully written memoir that is both cultural history and enlightening to personal present day struggles.
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