Straw in the Sun - Simon, Charlie May
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"In the early 1930s, Charlie May Simon, who would come to be known as an author of children's books, moved to the Arkansas Ozarks from New York City to wait out the Great Depression. Straw in the Sun, first published in 1945, is her back-to-the-lander's memoir of homesteading in the hill community where her grandparents had once lived. This memoir not only offers a window into rural life during the Depression but also poignantly hints at the losses that ensued in the war years that followed. This engaging reissue, edited by Aleshia O'Neal, includes a new introduction and an earlier account from Simon about life on the homestead"--…mehr

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"In the early 1930s, Charlie May Simon, who would come to be known as an author of children's books, moved to the Arkansas Ozarks from New York City to wait out the Great Depression. Straw in the Sun, first published in 1945, is her back-to-the-lander's memoir of homesteading in the hill community where her grandparents had once lived. This memoir not only offers a window into rural life during the Depression but also poignantly hints at the losses that ensued in the war years that followed. This engaging reissue, edited by Aleshia O'Neal, includes a new introduction and an earlier account from Simon about life on the homestead"--
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Charlie May Simon was born in a tenant-farmer cabin near Monticello, Arkansas, in 1897. Best known for her children's literature, she also wrote biographies for young adult readers as well as two memoirs and a novel for adults. The daughter of the author Charles Wayman Hogue, Simon spent much of her life in the company of other creatives, including her third husband, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet John Gould Fletcher. Honored with many awards for her literary achievements, she traveled extensively in researching the lives of humanitarians like Andrew Carnegie, Albert Schweitzer, Toyohiko Kagawa, Dag Hammarskjöld, Martin Buber, and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. After her homesteading years, Simon remained a lifetime resident of Little Rock, Arkansas, until her death in 1977. Aleshia O'Neal is an assistant professor of English at College of the Ozarks in Hollister, Missouri.