Format:
Book
Title:
Learning to fly : a writer's memoir / Mary Lee Settle ; edited by Anne Hobson Freeman.
Author:
Settle, Mary Lee.
Call Number:
813 Settle
Web Site:
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher, Date:
New York : W.W. Norton, c2007.
Description:
v, 224 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
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, 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. 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.--From publisher description.
Subjects:
Settle, Mary Lee.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Other Author:
Freeman, Anne Hobson, 1934-
Contents:
Prelude to the summer of 1938 -- From Barter to Manhattan -- The last grand summer -- Waiting -- Toronto -- Prewar in the United States, 1941-1942 -- Thirteen months in the WAAF -- London, 1944 -- Leaving -- The turning year -- Another country -- Mr. Eliot -- Coronation -- Nine years -- Maugham -- My Paris.
ISBN:
0393057321 (hardcover)
9780393057324 (hardcover)