Writing for her life
Subtitle: the novelist Mildred Walker
By: Ripley Hugo.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
Subjects: Walker, Mildred, 1905-; Women and literature -- Montana.; Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.; Montana -- In literature.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes index.