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Marguerite Young

Born

in Indiannapolis, The United States

August 28, 1908

Died

November 17, 1995

Genre

Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry

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Marguerite Vivian Young was an American author of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and criticism. Her work evinced an interest in the American identity, social issues, and environmentalism.

Her first book of poetry was published in 1937, while she was teaching high-school English in Indianapolis. In that same year, she visited New Harmony, Indiana, the site of two former utopian communities, where her mother and stepfather resided. She relocated to New Harmony and spent seven years there, beginning work on Angel in the Forest, a study of utopian concepts and communities.

Angel in the Forest was published in 1945 to universal acclaim, winning the Guggenheim and Newberry Library awards. Over the next fifty years, while maintaining an address in Ne ...more

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Average rating: 4.19 · 459 ratings · 146 reviews · 16 distinct works • Similar authors

	Miss MacIntosh, My Darling 4.26 avg rating — 261 ratings — published 1965 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Angel in the Forest: A Fairy Tale of Two Utopias by Marguerite Young, Mark van Doren (Introduction) 4.41 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 1945 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Miss MacIntosh, My Darling: Volume One 4.26 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1965 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Harp Song for a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs 3.33 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1999 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Miss MacIntosh, My Darling - Volume Two 4.40 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1965 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Collected Poems of Marguerite Young 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Moderate Fable and Other Poems 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1944 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Inviting the Muses: Stories, Essays, Reviews 3.45 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Prismatic Ground 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1937 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nothing but the Truth 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1992	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“For all dead loves and all remembered things. I have travelled through many seas.”
― Marguerite Young, Miss MacIntosh, My Darling

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“I am in love with whatever is eccentric, devious, strange, singular, unique, out of this world-and with life as an incalculable, a chaotic thing, meaningful above and beyond the necessary and elemental data of my subject.”
― Marguerite Young

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“Don't blindly follow any leader.”
― Marguerite Young

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Which of the selected titles would you prefer to read first, kicking off our Wild Card Group Project beginning in January?

Miss MacIntosh, My Darling by Marguerite Young

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The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

1 vote, 25.0%

Chronicle of the Murdered House by Lúcio Cardoso

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Snopes a trilogy, by William Faulkner

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