num_pages: 305
description: During her exceptional life Margaret Mead represented many things to the American public; sage, scientist, noncomformist, crusader for world peace, and archetypal grandmother. An enduring cultural icon for our century, she came to symbolize a new kind of woman, one who successfully combined marriage and motherhood with a career, and serious scholarship with a singular concern for its role in the lives of ordinary people.
language: English
title: Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years
titlecomplete: Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years
genres: Feminism, Womens, Anthropology, Memoir, Autobiography, Science, Biography Memoir, Travel, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 430
awards: awardedAt: 94723200000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Biography
publisher: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster