The long, uneasy armistice between two world wars was a trying time
for literary artists, particularly for those young men who came to
maturity in that period of economic and social upheaval. Oliver La
Farge's frank and honest personal narrative is a typical life of
one born into the easy world of Newport, New York, Groton, and
Harvard, dumped into the melting pot of the Great Depression, and
then slammed up against the global war. His purpose "to record the
America of one individual" and to set down the raw material from
which the writer derives the finished product he offers to the
world, is vividly fulfilled in this book. In an Appreciation
appearing in this new edition, John Pen La Farge says: "In his
autobiography, "Raw Material," Father wrote a superior account of
one man's life. As Mother pointed out, it was superior because it
was not a mere accounting of what, when, how, and in what order,
rather, it was the account of how the raw material of one boy grew
into a man, a man whose life both displayed and sought out true
integrity." Born in 1901, Oliver Hazard Perry La Farge is ranked
among the literary lions of Southwestern letters. Since he died in
1963, his reputation has continued to grow and new honors have been
added to his name. "Laughing Boy," a novel of Navajo life, won the
Pulitzer Prize in 1930, putting his name in lights before he was
30.
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