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Writing for Her Life - The Novelist Mildred Walker (Hardcover)
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Writing for Her Life - The Novelist Mildred Walker (Hardcover)
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"You are either a Mildred Walker enthusiast," as the "Philadelphia
Inquirer" once declared, "or you are missing one of the best
writers on the American scene." As Mildred Walker's daughter,
Ripley Hugo was in the latter category. This biography of the
author of thirteen celebrated novels is also Hugo's search for the
writing life of a mother known to her children as a socially
correct middle-class doctor's wife rather than as the ambitious,
imaginative, often struggling novelist she was as well. Drawing on
family memories, letters, diaries, reviews, and, in particular, the
notebooks that Mildred Walker (1905-1998) kept for each novel, Hugo
fashions an absorbing account of how her mother's characters
emerged in the landscapes that she visited again and again:
Vermont, the Midwest, and, most frequently, Montana, the setting
for the classic "Winter Wheat." Alongside this developing picture
of a writer at work--shaping her contribution to western America's
literary history over half a century--Hugo shows us the proper
mother and social creature as carefully and consciously crafted;
between the two lovingly detailed portrayals, we glimpse the depths
of a life thus divided.
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