Glenna Johnson Smith

Broschiertes Buch

Return of Old Maine Woman

Tales of Growing Up and Getting Older

Beschreibung

Glenna Johnson Smith returns in this follow-up to her runaway hit, Old Maine Woman, to explore the range of human experience through personal anecdotes, from being a girl growing up in rural Aroostook County to the bewilderment of getting older, to the gratitude for a life lived on her own terms.

Autor

Glenna Johnson Smith was born in 1920 in Asheville, Maine, in coastal Hancock County. She earned a bachelor's degree in home economics from the University of Maine in 1941. That same year she got married and moved to a farm in Easton, Maine, where she and her husband raised three sons. She taught English and home economics at schools in Easton, Fort Fairfield, and Presque Isle, and was heavily involved in high school and community theater productions. Presque Isle is now her home. Her writing has been published in her first book, Old Maine Woman, as well as Echoes and Yankee magazines, and in anthologies, including Maine Speaks: An Anthology of Maine Writers. She has been named Presque Island's Citizen of the Year and received an honorary doctorate form the University of Maine, Presque Isle. She was nominated for the Exemplary Older Person Award by the state of Maine.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Islandport Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 141mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 231g
• ISBN-13: 9781939017307
• ISBN-10: 1939017300
• Artikelnr.: 40586179