"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 Craven--one a handful of women at Stanford and a
groundbreaking woman journalist--made 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