Josephine Johnson

Winter Orchard and Other Stories (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of twenty-two short stories was first published in 1936, a year after Josephine Johnson won a Pulitzer Prize for her debut novel Now in November. Some of these stories were published previously in magazines - The Atlantic Monthly, Vanity Fair, The St. Louis Review, Hound and Horn, The Forum, The Midland - and even before Johnson was awarded the prestigious literary prize for her novel, her short fiction was praised for its evocative and perceptive content and simple but powerful style. The stories in this collection revolve around universal human cravings for love, happiness, and completion, and expose the fragile balance of human relationships. Johnson's writing touches her readers on a personal level, evoking memories of childhood dreams, first heartbreaks, and warm summer nights in the country surrounded by the sound of cicadas and frogs...

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781448213375
• Artikelnr.: 39705992

Autorenporträt

Josephine Johnson (1910-1990) was an American novelist and poet born, raised and educated in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1935, at the age of 24, she won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her first novel, Now In November. She continued to write throughout her life and several of her short stories won the O. Henry Award.

In 1942 she married Grant G. Cannon, editor in chief of the Farm Quarterly, with whom she had three children. Johnson, raised on a farm, always preferred a rural environment over city life and in addition to her writing was a devoted housewife and mother; Johnson used land and farm living as a setting for many of her stories.