Marguerite Young's epic novel, Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, was informed by her concept of history and pluralistic psychology, as well as her poetic prose style with its many layers of images and languages. She was also renowned as a teacher of writing at a number of venues, including the New School for Social Research and Fordham University. Over the next fifty years, while maintaining an address in New York's Greenwich Village, she traveled extensively and wrote articles, poetry, and book reviews for numerous magazines and newspapers. She relocated to New Harmony and spent seven years there, beginning work on Angel in the Forest, a study of utopian concepts and communities.Īngel in the Forest was published in 1945 to universal acclaim, winning the Guggenheim and Newberry Library awards. In that same year, she visited New Harmony, Indiana, the site of two former utopian communities, where her mother and stepfather resided. Her first book of poetry was published in 1937, while she was teaching high-school English in Indianapolis. Her work evinced an interest in the American identity, social issues, and environmentalism.

Marguerite Vivian Young was an American author of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and criticism.

The masterwork of a genius, Miss Macintosh, My Darling stands by itself as one of the greatest works of our time. Weed of the Wabash River Valley, a very efficient Christian hangman and many others. Spitzer, a lawyer, composer and mystical space traveller who is wholly unsure of himself and of reality his twin brother Peron, the raffish gambler and sports virtuoso Cousin Hannah, the horsewoman, balloonist, mountain-climber and militant Boston feminist Titus Bonebreaker of Chicago, a wildman of God dreaming of a heavenly crown Mr. With precise detail, Young defines the characters in this phantasmagorical journey: Miss Macintosh herself, from What Cheer, Iowa, a seemingly forthright and normal woman with an incorruptible sense of humor and the desire to put an end to phantoms the opium lady Catherine Cartwheel, a recluse who entertains imaginary guests in a great New England seaside house the gentle Mr. In prose that is poetic, incantatory, and extraordinarily rich, Marguerite Young takes us on a search for reality in a world of illusion and nightmare, touching on subjects as varied as drug addiction, women's suffrage, murder, suicide, pregnancy (both real and imagined), schizophrenia, love, gambling, and perfectionism.

One of the most ambitious and remarkable literary achievements of the twentieth century, Miss Macintosh, My Darling might be called the Arabian Nights of American life.

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