297 pages | 21st April, 1992 | Non-fiction | Biographies & Memoirs
A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST
Marion Post Wolcott’s magnificent images of rural America in the 1930s are among the treasure of American photography. And what sets them apart from the work of the other distinguished photographers who focused their camera on Depression-ravaged America is the profoundly touching and personal quality of her pictures: she seems to have gone beyond the harsh realities of the time to embrace and illuminate the life she saw.
Seventy-seven of her memorable photographs illustrate this resonant biography which celebrates her art and her life. It is the story of an unusually attractive, gifted, and adventurous woman who suddenly, at the age of thirty-one, decided to abandon her career and address herself to the responsibilities of family.
Paul Hendrickson is a three-time finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and a winner in 2003 for his book Sons of Mississippi. The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War was a 1996 finalist for the National Book Award. Hemingway’s Boat was a New York Times best seller and also a best seller in the UK. He has been the recipient of writing fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lyndhurst Foundation, and the Alicia Patterson Foundation. Since 1998, he has been on the faculty of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Pennsylvania, and for two decades before that, he was a staff writer at The Washington Post. He lives with his wife, Cecilia, a retired nurse, outside Philadelphia and in Washington, DC.
US: Knopf