Helen Button

by Carol Roh Spaulding

Overview

A young French housekeeper lives out the years of World War II in the French countryside with her famous employers, Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798985431780
Publisher:	Sowilo Press
Publication date:	11/07/2024
Pages:	322
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.72(d)

About the Author

Carol Roh Spaulding is the author of Waiting for Mr. Kim and Other Stories, winner of the 2022 Flannery O'Conner Award for Short Fiction from University of Georgia Press and 2024 recipient of the Independent Publisher Book Award Gold Medal for Short Fiction. Her stories and articles have won several awards including a Pushcart Prize, Notable Mention in Best American Essays 2019, the Glimmer Train Fiction Open, Ploughshares Cohen Award for Best Story of the Year, the Katherine Anne Porter Award for Short Fiction from Nimrod International, and the David Nathan Meyerson Award for fiction from Southwest Review. She is a professor at Drake University in Des Moines and lives with her husband in Granger, Iowa.