Learning to fly
Subtitle: a writer's memoir
By: Mary Lee Settle ; edited by Anne Hobson Freeman.
Contributors: Freeman, Anne Hobson, 1934-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780393057324
Subjects: Settle, Mary Lee; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: From Barter to Manhattan; title: The last grand summer; title: Waiting; title: Toronto Prewar in the United States, 1941/1942; title: Thirteen months in the WAAF; title: London, 1944; title: Leaving; title: The turning year; title: The apprenticeship; title: Another country; title: Mr. Eliot; title: Coronation; title: Nine years; title: Maugham; title: My Paris.