Nancy Hale
Subtitle: on the life & work of a lost American master
By: Dan Chaon, Norah Hardin Lind, & Phong Nguyen, editors
Series: The unsung masters series at Pleiades Press -- v. 3; Unsung masters series -- v. 3.
Publisher: Pleiades Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Warrensburg, Mo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9780964145436
Subjects: American fiction; Women authors; Criticism and interpretation; History and criticism
Description: In the 1930s and 1940s, Nancy Hale was a writer of literary best-sellers, beloved by critics, and expected by many to become one of the canonical writers of her era. Her fiction helped to shape the early identity of The New Yorker magazine and established her as an important voice in both the short story and the novel. By her death in 1988, however, all but one of her more than thirty books had gone out of print, and her star had faded into near obscurity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Dan Chaon; title: Seven short stories by Nancy Hale: Midsummer ; The empress's ring ; Entrance into life ; The earliest dreams ; The bubble ; Who lived and died believing ; Club car; title: The laughter downstairs / Ann Beattie; title: The retrospective narrator / Phong Nguyen; title: Mary the un-merry widow / Debra Brenegan; title: Images; title: Introduction to The Prodigal woman / Mary Lee Settle; title: Nancy Hale, the prodigal writer / Trudy Lewis; title: Nancy Hale and feminism / Norah Hardin Lind; title: Eyes and no eyes, or, The art of seeing / Nancy Hale; title: Hale and the art of memoir / G. Thomas Tanselle; title: With artists as parents / John Beebe; title: Nancy Hale (1908-1988) / Anne Hobson Freeman.