Incognito Street How Travel Made Me a Writer

by Sjoholm, Barbara

• ISBN13: 9781580051729
• ISBN10: 1580051723
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-10-12
• Publisher: Seal Press

Summary

Incognito Street is an evocative look at an adventurous, curious young expatriate and the forces that would shape her eventual career as a writer, translator, and publisher. Sjoholm captures the flavor of a time when the feminist and lesbian movements were just beginning, seen from the perspective of a girl searching for a voice and a self to call her own. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Barbara Sjoholm is the author of The Pirate Queen, a finalist for the PEN USA award in creative nonfiction. Her essays and travel journalism have appeared in The New York Times, Slate, Smithsonian, American Scholar, Antioch Review, Harvard Review, and many other publications. As Barbara Wilson, she is the author of the prize-winning memoir Blue Windows, and of numerous mysteries and other fiction, including Gaudi Afternoon, which was made into a film, and won a British Crime Writers Award. She lives in Seattle.

Table of Contents

Faith	p. 3
The Vagabond	p. 23
Mediterraneo	p. 41
George Sand's Cigar	p. 63
Saffron	p. 83
Iberia	p. 103
The Garden of Forking Paths	p. 117
Bleak House	p. 147
The Looking Glass	p. 171
Incognito Street	p. 179
A Glacier Summer	p. 199
Winter in Granada	p. 215
Al-Andalus	p. 239
Simultaneous Translation	p. 257
Cante Jondo	p. 277
Ripples from the Storm	p. 297
O Pioneers!	p. 319
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