Natalie Scott: A Magnificent Life - Hardcover

Scott, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1589805801 ISBN 13: 9781589805804

Publisher: Pelican Publishing, 2008

Synopsis

Natalie Scott is widely recognized as a literary and cultural dynamo of the early 1900s. As a Red Cross nurse and translator, she was awarded the Croix de Guerre, France's highest medal for bravery, in World War I. She was also a celebrated writer and journalist in both Mexico and the United States. She founded several artistic and literary colonies, socialized with a group that included William Faulkner and Sherwood Anderson, and even created a peasant school and medical cooperative in impoverished Taxco, Mexico. This incredible account of her passions, causes, and adventures is one of a real New Orleans lady, a lady whose comfort in the role of Southern woman belied the adventurous and varied life she led.

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Natalie Scott is widely recognized as a literary and cultural dynamo of the early 1900s. She was a celebrated writer and journalist in both Mexico and the United States. Her love of New Orleans and theatre led to her role in the founding of Le Petit Théâtre du Vieux Carré, one of the oldest community playhouses in the United States. The establishment of the theatre was integral to the rejuvenation of the New Orleans French Quarter. During a World War I bombing, she rescued medical patients from the upper floors of the hospital where she worked as a nurse. For this she was awarded the Croix de Guerre for bravery, one of France's highest medals. In her philanthropy, she founded a peasant school and medical cooperative in impoverished Taxco, Mexico, and was credited with bringing the first physician to the area. She also opened the Kitigawa House, a pension for artists and writers. Scott's charm, wit, and generosity earned her many notable friends throughout her life, including Sherwood Anderson, William Faulkner, Lyle Saxon, and Roark Bradford. This account covers the whole of Natalie Scott's life and works. As such, it is a thorough and definitive example of this outstanding woman's legacy. [BACK FLAP] Natalie Scott was the author of Mandy's Favorite Louisiana Recipes, Gourmet's Guide to New Orleans: Creole Cookbook, and 200 Years of New Orleans Cooking, all published by Pelican. John W. Scott became interested in this subject while a student at Tulane University. The university's extensive archives, files, and artifacts were the catalyst for his interest in accurately and thoroughly documenting the robust life of Natalie Scott. He received his Ph.D. in history from Louisiana State University and later became an assistant professor of history there. He won the Louisiana Historical Association Presidential Memorial Award and the Martin Hardwick Award for Writing. He serves as president of the Rapides Parish Arts and Humanities Council. Scott is an attorney with a juris doctor degree from Louisiana State University. He served for several years as a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives.

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"What impresses most about John Scott's biography is the monumental scope of his research. But nearly as impressive is how effortlessly he drives his narrative forward using Natalie's writings in equal measure with his own, thus building a picture so complete that the reader comes to know the woman body and soul. This is a winning and long-overdue portrait of an unforgettable American, told with relish by a writer clearly enthralled by his subject." --John Ed Bradley Natalie Vivian Scott (1890-1957), once described by author Sherwood Anderson as "the best newspaperwoman in America," became a vital force in the creative colony of intellectuals who gathered in the French Quarter during the 1920s. She has been widely recognized as a literary and cultural dynamo of the early twentieth century; however, her accomplishments can hardly be pigeonholed into these two categories. As a Red Cross nurse and translator during World War I and World War II, Scott was awarded the Croix de Guerre, France's highest medal for bravery, after rescuing patients from the continuously bombed and debris-filled upper floors of the medical building she worked in. A celebrated writer and journalist in Mexico and the United States, she founded several artistic and literary colonies, socialized with a group that included William Faulkner and Sherwood Anderson, and even created a peasant school and medical cooperative in impoverished Taxco, Mexico. This incredible account of her passions, causes, and adventures is one of a real New Orleans lady--a lady whose comfort in the role of a Southern woman belied the adventurous and varied life she led.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pelican Publishing
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1589805801
• ISBN 13: 9781589805804
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 496