Opal
Subtitle: A Life of Enchantment, Mystery, and Madness
Publisher: Viking Adult
Published: October 23, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780670031450
Subjects: Historical - U.S.; Women naturalists; Princesses; Biography/Autobiography; 20th Century American Novel And Short Story; Women As Authors (American Literature); Whiteley, Opal Stanley; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Miscellanea; Literary; France; Women; Biography & Autobiography / General; Authors, American; United States; 20th century; Biography
First sentence: In February 1918, Opal Whiteley, aged twenty, and a regional celebrity known as the Little Nature Study Girl and the Sunshine Fairy, got on a Southern Pacific train in Cottage Grove, Oregon, a small town in a lush valley surrounded by green hills.