Title: Algonquin Woods
First published: 1978
Description: An elegaic, personal and intimate journey of growing up Irish in 1940's and 50's Northeastern America, with  of all of its residual anti-Irish prejudice and the fierce and resilient Irish pride of those whom others would silence.  A grounding in all things personal and political. The author, along with Eileen Callahan, was the founder of a mid-20 century independent publishing house, Turtle Island Foundation, which, among other works, was the first in the modern era to collect and publish the then-forgotten great African-American writer, Zora Neale Hurston, as well as a number of other important American writers across diverse fields.
Subjects: memoir, autobiography, nonfiction, poetry, Native American
Places: American southeast, American south
People: Jaime de Angulo, Zora Neale Hurston, Simon Ortiz, Ed Dorn
Time periods: 20th century