Meaning a Life: an Autobiography

A classic of twentieth-century American autobiography now back in print with previously unpublished material from the author’s archive

First published in 1978, Mary Oppen’s seminal Meaning a Life has been largely unavailable for decades. Written in her sixties, her first and only prose book recounts, with honesty, depth, and conviction, her fiercely independent life—“a twentieth-century American romance,” as Yang describes it in the new introduction, “of consciousness on the open road; a boo...