American Notebooks: A Writer's Journey

Marie-Claire Blais

American Notebooks: A Writer's Journey
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Talonbooks
Country
Canada
Published
17 September 1996
Pages
208
ISBN
9780889223585

American Notebooks: A Writer’s Journey

Marie-Claire Blais

It is the spring of 1963. The young Quebec author Marie-Claire Blais, bursting with energy and talent, has just won a coveted Guggenheim fellowship. She chooses Cambridge, Massachusetts, as the place where she will begin her writer’s apprenticeship with her mentor, Edmund Wilson. American Notebooks is much more than a fascinating autobiographical account of the intellectual flowering of a great writer. An album of exquisitely drawn literary portraits of companions, intellectuals, writers, musicians, artists and social activists of the period-Edmund and Elena Wilson; Mary Meigs; Maud Maugan; Barbara Deming; Truman Capote; Jacques Hebert, her first Quebec publisher, then senator; and many others-it also introduces many of the real life personalities who have inspired her fictional characters.

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