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I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography
I Knew a Phoenix Sketches for an Autobiography
Author: May Sarton
Sarton's memoir begins with her roots in a Belgian childhood and describes her youth and education in Cambridge, Massachusetts, her coming-of-age years, and the people who influenced her life as a writer.
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ISBN-13: 9780393009163
ISBN-10: 0393009165
Publication Date: 3/1979
Pages: 222
Edition: First
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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Book Type: Paperback
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The story starts with Sarton's Belgian childhood and her parents--her father, a brilliant historian of science, and her mother, an artist. It goes up to her embarkation on a writer's life at the age of twenty-four with her first book of poetry.


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