Title: Fifty days of solitude
Description: Faced with a rare opportunity to experiment with solitude, Doris Grumbach decided to live in her coastal Maine home without speaking to anyone for fifty days. The result is a beautiful meditation about what it means to write, to be alone, and to come to terms with mortality.
Subjects: 20th century, American Novelists, Biography, Homes and haunts, Intellectual life, Novelists, American, Social life and customs, Solitude, Maine, social life and customs, Maine, biography, Women authors, Large type books, New York Times reviewed, American Women novelists
Places: Maine
People: Doris Grumbach
Time periods: 20th century