And So Did I - Couverture souple

Whitaker, Malachi

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1915812747 ISBN 13 : 9781915812742

Editeur : Boiler House Press, 2025

Synopsis

A book decades ahead of its time, And So Did I established a new model for the memoir, one built from moments of intense observation, candid self-reflection, courageous honesty, and irrepressible humor. It opens with the comedy of a man being struck by an automobile and walking away unscathed and cascades through a year's worth of incidents and encounters that reveal Whitaker's resilient spirit and fine-honed understanding of people, their quirks, weaknesses, and charms.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Malachi Whitaker was the pseudonym of Marjorie Whitaker, born Olive Marjorie Taylor, the eighth of eleven children, in Bradford in 1895. She left school at the age of thirteen to help support her family, and married Leonard Whitaker in 1917. She began publishing short stories soon after and four collections were published by Jonathan Cape between 1929 and 1934. She came to be considered one of the finest English short story writers of her time. As she writes in And So Did I, by the late 1930s, she found writing increasingly problematic and she published few new pieces thereafter. She died in Skipton, Yorkshire, in 1976.

A PhD Researcher at the University of Salford, Valerie Waterhouse is Malachi Whitaker's Literary Executor. In 2025, she was the inaugural winner of Biography International Organization's Kitty Kelley Dissertation Fellowship, to assist completion of her biographical thesis on Whitaker. In 2019, with the Bradford Civic Society, she co-organized the installation of a Blue Plaque at Whitaker's birthplace house in Wrose, Bradford.

Catherine Taylor is a writer, critic, and editor. Formerly publisher at The Folio Society and deputy director of English PEN, she won the 2024 TLS Ackerley Prize for The Stirrings, her memoir of growing up in Sheffield, South Yorkshire in the 1970s and 1980s.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Boiler House Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1915812747
• ISBN 13: 9781915812742
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 200
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible