Mary Austin: Song of a Maverick - Hardcover

Stineman, Esther Lanigan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300042558 ISBN 13: 9780300042559

Publisher: Yale University Press, 1989

Synopsis

Discusses the writer's life and works, her heartbreaks and successes, and her relationships with such notable figures as Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Jack London, Willa Cather, and Ansel Adams

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

"This book seamlessly combines biography and criticism. [Lanigan] adeptly analyzes Austin's life...and also offers insightful analyses of Austin's writing. Like other females of her period, she received too little recognition for her original prose style and social critiques. Thanks to "Song of a Maverick," we hear Mary Austin's voice more clearly and appreciatively."--Carol J. Singley in "American Literature"
"[Lanigan] provides illuminating sociological background and lucidly marshals the existing biolgraphical data."--"Choice"
"Mary Hunter Austin was a well-known and respected author and activitst in her lifetime but is little known in ours. In this excellent biography...[Lanigan] chose to focus on a few central relationships in Austin's life, to explore in some depth a few central texts, and to understand the interior life of her subject. She has done a splendid job."--Ann J. Lane in the "Journal of American History"

From the Back Cover:

'Mary Hunter Austin was a well-known and respected author and activist in her lifetime but is little known in ours. In this excellent biography.... Lanigan chose to focus on a few central relationships in Austin's life, to explore in some depth a few central texts, and to understand the interior life of her subject. She has done a splendid job.' - Ann J. Lane in the Journal of American History.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0300042558
• ISBN 13: 9780300042559
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 286