posted Jan 27, 2011, 3:18 PM by Sarah Glazer
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updated Feb 3, 2011, 11:52 AM
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Novelist Maggie Gee, discussing her just-published memoir
“My Animal Life,” answered questions about how far an author
should go when writing about family and friends, the motherhood-work
dilemma and surviving in the jungle of literary publishing. Maggie Gee, the award-winning
novelist, this year published a memoir entitled My Animal Life,
her first non-fiction book.
Her many novels include The Ice People, The White Family
(shortlisted for the Orange prize), My Cleaner
and My Driver. She was the first female Chair of the Royal Society
of Literature, and her work has been translated into 13 languages. Critics
have acclaimed My Animal Life for its uncompromising honesty
and elegant prose. "A vivid portrait of a woman finding her way
through the maze of class-ridden, post-war England, the 60s, feminism
and how to be a mother and a writer," says Diana Melly.
Sarah Glazer
is a journalist whose articles on have appeared in the New York Times,
the Washington Post and Congressional Quarterly. She writes
a monthly blog, “State of the Art,” on publishing and writing for
the website SheWrites.com. |
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