Waiting for the Party
Book description
Most people have heard of "Little Lord Fauntleroy" and "The Secret Garden", but many of them are unaware that the same woman wrote both books, 25 years apart, and was considered one of the leading writers in America. Exposed to the extremes of poverty and wealth, she survived two broken…
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1 author picked Waiting for the Party as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I was first attracted to the book because I recognized her name as the author of The Secret Garden, which my family had watched a movie of when our children were small. The second factor that attracted me to it was when I learned that the subject of the book had lived in my home state of Tennessee and my hometown of Knoxville for a while, during which she did much of her early writing.
The author gives a behind-the-scenes look at what it was like for Burnett as a writer, struggling first to get published and then to…
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