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Learning to Fly: A Writer's Memoir
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Learning to Fly: A Writer's Memoir Hardback - 2007

by Mary Lee Settle; Anne Freeman (Editor)

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This memoir, which picks up Settles life story where "Addie" left it, finds a girl turning 20 and determined to be an actress. In the summer of 1938, Settle began a theater apprenticeship, inadvertently setting her on a road few women of that era dared to travel.

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Two years before her death in 2005, Mary Lee Settle sat down "to trace the way that led me into the writer I have been for fifty years." The result is this memoir, which picks up her life story where Addie (1998) left it, with a girl turning twenty, head over heels in love with the language of Shakespeare and determined to be an actress. That summer of 1938 her mother sends Mary Lee off to a theater apprenticeship, inadvertently setting her on a road few women of that era would have dared to travel. The road will lead to serious, "uncompromised" writing and over twenty books, including her masterwork, The Beulah Quintet. The adventures along the way--from the glamour of New York during the World's Fair, through the terrors of London during the Blitz, to the trials and triumphs of the postwar literary world--will delight, inform, and alarm the reader of this thoroughly modern Canterbury Tale.

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  • Title Learning to Fly: A Writer's Memoir
  • Author Mary Lee Settle; Anne Freeman (Editor)
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition 1st
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, New York
  • Publication date August 20, 2007
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Dust Cover, Illustrated, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780393057324 / 0393057321
  • Weight 0.89 lbs (0.40 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.27 x 6.18 x 0.86 in (21.01 x 15.70 x 2.18 cm)
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Authors, American - 20th century, Settle, Mary Lee
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2007023111
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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  • Kirkus Reviews, 06/15/2007, Page 596
  • Library Journal, 08/01/2007, Page 88
  • New York Times Book Review, 08/03/2007, Page 15
  • Publishers Weekly, 06/18/2007, Page 49
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