The Marriage of Anna Maye Potts - Hardcover

Henry, DeWitt

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1953136656 ISBN 13: 9781953136657

Publisher: Pierian Springs Press, 2024

Synopsis

Filled with a tight-knit ensemble cast of deeply realized characters, this earthy, beautifully nuanced story, set in suburban industrial America, reveals to us an everyday working woman as she finds her way on her own terms-through work, family, grief and love, and then-not so much finds as makes, a place for herself in the world.

DeWitt Henry masterfully portrays Anna Maye gaining an inner force, which she refuses to compromise. The novel evokes in the reader a sense of the power of the heart and the will to transform one's self-and to make claims on what's rightfully one's own.

Winner of the Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel.

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About the Authors

DeWitt Henry is the founding editor of the internationally prestigious literary journal, Ploughshares. A prolific writer, his award-winning books span diverse genres, from his prize-winning novel The Marriage of Anna Maye Potts, to his essays Sweet Marjoram: Notes And Essays (2018) to his memoirs, Endings & Beginnings: Family Essays (2021), Visions Of A Wayne Childhood (2012), Sweet Dreams: A Family History (2011), Safe Suicide: Essays, Narratives, And Meditations (2008) to his poetry, Foundlings: Found Poems From Prose (2022), Restless For Words: Poems (2023), Trim Reckonings (2023), half a dozen anthologies, and articles too numerous to list. He obtained his Ph.D. in English at Harvard University and then completed requirements for M.F.A. at the University of Iowa. He is Professor Emeritus at Emerson College, where he has shepherded forth several generations of nationally renowned authors.

Margot Livesey (born 1953) is a Scottish-born writer. She is the author of nine novels, a collection of short stories, a collection of essays on writing and the co-author, with Lynn Klamkin, of a textbook. Among other awards, she has earned a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the PEN New England Award, and the Massachusetts Book Award.Livesey's stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and a number of literary quarterlies. She was formerly the fiction editor at Ploughshares, an American literary journal. Livesey served as a judge for the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction in 2012.She currently divides her time between Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Iowa City, Iowa, where she is a member of the faculty at the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. She has also taught at Boston University, Bowdoin College, Brandeis University, Carnegie Mellon University, Cleveland State University, Emerson College, Tufts University, the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers, and Williams College. She has frequently been a faculty member at the Bread Loaf and Sewanee writers' conferences, among other conferences.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pierian Springs Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1953136656
• ISBN 13: 9781953136657
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 282