Learning to Fly: A Writer's Memoir

Learning to Fly: A Writer's Memoir
ISBN-10
0393057321
ISBN-13
9780393057324
Series
Learning to Fly
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
224
Language
English
Published
2007
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Author
Mary Lee Settle

Description

The memoirs of a founder of the PEN/Faulkner Prize pick up where Addie left off to continue her life story as of her twentieth year, describing her love for the Shakespearean language, her theater apprenticeship in an era during which few women pursued such interests, and her creation of her masterpiece, The Beulah Quintet.

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