Again Calls the Owl
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Again Calls the Owl
By (Author) Margaret Craven
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
31st March 1999
United States
Classifications
General
Fiction
B
Physical Properties
Paperback
128
Width 108mm, Height 171mm, Spine 8mm
79g
Description
A rich memoir . . . a woman of sensitivity, forthrightness, warmth, and talent.Booklist
To become a writer, she chose loneliness. To write a bestseller, she embraced a rugged land.
Deceptively simple in style, stunning in its implications, this gem of an autobiography carries readers back to the beginning of the century when Margaret Cravenone a handful of women at Stanford and a groundbreaking woman journalistmade the audacious decision not to work for a living, but to work as a writer.
Here Margaret Craven brings vividly to life an idyllic childhood which suddenly vanishes; advice from a red-robed Gertrude Stein propped up in bed; a nearly tragic battle with blindness; and a fateful trip to a magnificently wild Pacific Northwest, a town called Kingcome . . . and her emergence, at sixty-nine, as a women who realized a dream.
Praise for Again Calls the Owl
A writer of compassion, humor, spirit, and persistence.St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Readers will find in this small memoir courage, joy, inspiration.Library Journal
An unabashed joy for living.Santa Barbara News-Press
Reviews
A rich memoir . . . a woman of sensitivity, forthrightness, warmth, and talent.Booklist
A writer of compassion, humor, spirit, and persistence.St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Readers will find in this small memoir courage, joy, inspiration.Library Journal
An unabashed joy for living.Santa Barbara News-Press
Author Bio
Margaret Craven was born in Montana in 1901. Upon her graduation from Stanford University in 1924, she moved permanently to California. In 1941 she started writing for the Saturday Evening Post, which continued publishing her stories for 20 years. A visit to the Kwakiutl on the B.C. coast inspired her first novel, I Heard the Owl Call My Name, which became a bestseller in 1973, selling over one million copies, and was adapted as a television movie for CBS. Margaret published a second novel, Walk Gently This Good Earth, in 1977, and an autobiography, Again Calls the Owl, in 1980.
