The first book by Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Steinbach is an intimate, personal collection of essays, remembrances, and columns that follows in the creative nonfiction tradition of Anna Quindlen and May Sarton. While it recounts the experience and observations of a divorced, working mother, it expresses hopes and fears universal to all women. Steinbach focuses on the big and small things of life: the bond between lifelong friends; coming to grips with loss; the quiet, everyday moments between parents and child; the spiritual connection to nature; the realities of being a single parent. She writes of the people who’ve touched her own life: the influential teacher; the worldly aunt; the writer hero; the woman she sees
The first book by Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Steinbach is an intimate, personal collection of essays, remembrances, and columns that follows in the creative nonfiction tradition of Anna Quindlen and May Sarton. While it recounts the experience and observations of a divorced, working mother, it expresses hopes and fears universal to all women. Steinbach focuses on the big and small things of life: the bond between lifelong friends; coming to grips with loss; the quiet, everyday moments between parents and child; the spiritual connection to nature; the realities of being a single parent. She writes of the people who’ve touched her own life: the influential teacher; the worldly aunt; the writer hero; the woman she sees regularly at a bus stop as both head to work. She offers us beautifully written lessons she’s learned during a lifetime of changes and challenges. As a nationally distributed Baltimore Sun columnist and feature writer, and as a writer for Glamour, McCall’s, Redbook, Woman’s Day, and Reader’s Digest, Steinbach clearly qualifies as one of the best of today’s literary journalists. Because she sees the world through such clear eyes, and fashions sentences with such an obvious love of language, readers of Miss Dennis will come away in touch with the thread of humanity that weaves through their lives, in touch with the memories of their own childhoods and experiences. They will be both uplifted and enriched.
"These essays reveal the influence of time and experience on memory, imagination, and reflection. Steinbach offers an inspirational book that will appeal primarily to women over 30 who will identify with the type of experiences and memories she describes. Recommended for public libraries and comprehensive women’s studies collections.”
Joanne Wilkinson, Booklist
“Like any skillful writer, she can make you laugh, and she can make you cry, and she sometimes does both, all within the limitations of a column format.”
“These are stories from the heart, small acts of self disclosure that reveal one woman’s vulnerabilities, her yearnings, and her joy in simple pleasures. This book is that rare find—a true companion.”
Mary Kay Blakely
“Reading Alice Steinbach’s essays is like having a long, satisfying visit with your best friend. She can read your mind, make you laugh out loud, startle you with sudden wisdom, and provoke memories you didn’t know you shared. Her teacher Miss Dennis must have been as grateful as her young protégé: I imagine it was a thrill to find Steinbach’s wit, intelligence, and passion for life.” (MARY KAY BLAKELEY IS THE AUTHOR OF AMERICAN MOM)
Publishers Weekly
“In this collection of her essays and columns, Pulitzer Prize-winning Baltimore Sun journalist Steinbach seeks to ‘rescue from insignificance some of the small events that make up a life.’ Alternately poignant and humorous, sedately contemplative and bristling with emotional energy, Steinbach's various musings on the daily rhythms of her own moods and experiences transform ‘everyday life’ into a rich and meaningful journey.”
Product Details
ISBN-13: 9781890862107
Publisher: Bancroft Press
Publication date: 8/20/1996
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 307
Sales rank: 301,443
File size: 355 KB
Meet the Author
Alice Steinbach, a journalist since 1977, was a reporter, feature writer, and columnist for the Baltimore Sun until 1999. In 1985, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing. In the years since, she has won many major awards for both her reporting and her column, which ran from 1989 through 1993. Her work was distributed nationally on the Los Angeles Times-Washington Post wire service. She has been a freelance writer since 1999. She was appointed the 1998-1999 McGraw Professor of Writing at Princeton University and is currently a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow. Steinbach, along with Anna Quindlen and Molly Ivins, is one of nine women journalists featured in Women on Deadline: A Collection of America's Best. Her work has also appeared in several other books on journalism: The Complete Book of Feature Writing; Writing: Strategies for All Disciplines; and Feature Writing for Newspapers and Magazines. Steinbach did radio commentary for several years, as well as a call-in talk show for WBAL Radio in Baltimore, MD. In 1994, she was a commentator for WJZ-TV in Baltimore. Her work as a freelance journalist has appeared in many major magazines and newspapers, including Glamour, McCall's, Redbook, Woman's Day, Reader's Digest, The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, San Francisco Examiner, Chicago Sun Times, Boston Globe, and other newspapers. In 1991 and 1992, she taught a senior seminar in Creative Nonfiction Writing at Loyola College in Baltimore. Steinbach lives in her native Baltimore. She has two grown sons.
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The first book by Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Steinbach is an intimate, personal collection of essays, remembrances, and columns that follows in the creative nonfiction tradition of Anna Quindlen and May Sarton. While it recounts the experience and observations of a divorced, working mother, it expresses hopes and fears universal to all women. Steinbach focuses on the big and small things of life: the bond between lifelong friends; coming to grips with loss; the quiet, everyday moments between parents and child; the spiritual connection to nature; the realities of being a single parent. She writes of the people who’ve touched her own life: the influential teacher; the worldly aunt; the writer hero; the woman she sees