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Learning to Fly: A Writer's Memoir
Two years before her death in 2005, Mary Lee Settle sat down "to trace the way that led me into the writer I have been for fifty years." The result is this memoir, which picks up her life story where Addie (1998) left it, with a girl turning twenty, head over heels in love with the language of Shakespeare and determined to be an actress. That summer of 1938 her m...more
Hardcover, 224 pages
Published
August 20th 2007
by W. W. Norton & Company
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A memoir by the author of Turkish Reflections, the only book I've read by Settle. This one, while not altogether satisfying due to the questions I'm left with, for instance, about her relationships (with her only son, husbands, lovers), is touching and intriguing. The parts about her wartime experience in England in military service were the most immediate and poignant. This is a fast read for memoir-lovers, and has motivated me to read some of Settle's novels. Perhaps that would make Settle...more
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