Maryellen V. Keefe

Casual Affairs (eBook, ePUB)

The Life and Fiction of Sally Benson

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In Casual Affairs, Maryellen V. Keefe vividly follows the life and career of Sally Benson, the New Yorker writer remembered by generations of moviegoers for Meet Me in St. Louis, the film that brought her family to life. Keefe traces Benson's life from her childhood in St. Louis to marriage and motherhood to her award-winning fiction career and her success as a Hollywood screenwriter. Through the Jazz Age and into the 1930s and '40s, Benson negotiated the transition from domesticity to the marketplace, becoming a full-fledged career woman while juggling her responsibilities as a wife and mother and indulging in several "quiet little affairs." She succeeded early in a profession dominated by men, forging her way in a largely male world and winning the support and friendship of colleagues and editors. Benson established herself as a writer known for brutally honest portraits of middle-class women much like herself.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Seitenzahl: 468
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781438450902
• Artikelnr.: 60535671

Autorenporträt

Maryellen V. Keefe is Associate Professor of English at SUNY Maritime College and the author of St. Angela Merici: Leading People to God.