num_pages: 242
description: Sarton's memoir begins with her roots in a Belgian childhood and describes her youth and education in Cambridge, Massachusetts, her coming-of-age years, and the people who influenced her life as a writer.
language: English
title: I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography
titlecomplete: I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography
genres: Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction, Womens, Autobiography, Biography Memoir, 20th Century
ratings_count: 133
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company