The Lizard Speaks: Essays on the Writings of Frederick Manfred (The Prairie Plains Series No. 6) - Softcover

Nancy Owen Nelson

9780931170676: The Lizard Speaks: Essays on the Writings of Frederick Manfred (The Prairie Plains Series No. 6)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0931170672 ISBN 13: 9780931170676

Publisher: Center for Western Studies, 1998

The first collection ever of essays about the writings of Frederick Manfred, best-selling novelist of the American West. Edited by Nancy Owen Nelson, of the Henry Ford Community College, "The Lizard Speaks" is composed of essays by eighteen leading students of Manfred's work and covers the main body of his novel writing, from "The Golden Bowl" (1944) to "Of Lizards and Angels" (1992).

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About the Author:

Nancy Owen Nelson has published articles in several academic journals and anthologies. She is co-editor of The Selected Letters of Frederick Manfred: 1932-1954 (University of Nebraska Press, 1989) and editor of Private Voices, Public Lives: Women Speak on the Literary Life (1995, University of North Texas Press) and The Lizard Speaks: Essays on the Writings of Frederick Manfred (the Center for Western Studies, 1998). She has a published poetry in the, What Wildness is this? (University of Texas Press, March 2007) as well as in the South Dakota Review and Graffiti Rag and has creative nonfiction pieces in Mom's Writing Literary Journal (Fall, 2008), Lalitamba journal, and Roll (Telling Our Stories Press, 2013). She is currently teaching writing in several colleges and a memoir workshop for Springfed Arts (a Detroit literary/music organization).

Nelson earned her B.A. in French and English at Birmingham-Southern College and her M.A. and PhD in English at Auburn University. She taught composition and literature at Auburn University, Augustana College, Albion College, and Henry Ford Community College. For three years she served as Assistant Director of the Hassayampa Institute for Creative Writing at Yavapai College, Prescott, AZ.

She is looking for a home for her memoir, Divine Aphasia and writing a memoir on three generations of women in her family, Fighting for a Name.

Review:

A look at Manfred's work from diverse and engaging points of view...objective and critically responsible. As the only work of its type, it breaks new ground-a lot of it! --Robert C. Steensma, University of Utah

Objective, daring, unique, sometimes touching and informative. A good overview of Fred's oeuvre. This book could not be passed up. --Ronald Robinson, Augustana College

Objective, daring, unique, sometimes touching and informative. A good overview of Fred's oeuvre. This book could not be passed up. --Ronald Robinson, Augustana College

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