“I always thought of Miss MacIntosh as the center of the wheel, the hub, then the spokes as the subsidiary, secondary characters, and the wheel as endlessly expanding like a universe.” - Marguerite Young 1 The Collidescope is an affiliate of and will earn a small commission if you click through those specific links and make a purchase. Young’s epic novel Miss MacIntosh, My Darling was informed by her concept of history and pluralistic psychology, as well as her poetic prose style with its many layers of images and languages.Įditor’s note: This is a guest post by Zachary Tanner. She was also renowned as a teacher of writing at a number of venues, including the New School for Social Research and Fordham University. Over the next fifty years, while maintaining an address in New York’s Greenwich Village, she traveled extensively and wrote articles, poetry, and, book reviews for numerous magazines and newspapers. She relocated to New Harmony and spent seven years there, beginning work on Angel in the Forest, a study of utopian concepts and communities, which was published in 1945 to universal acclaim, winning the Guggenheim and Newberry Library awards. In that same year, she visited New Harmony, Indiana, the site of two former utopian communities, where her mother and stepfather resided. Her first book of poetry was published in 1937, while she was teaching high-school English in Indianapolis. Her work evinced an interest in American identity, social issues, and environmentalism. About Marguerite Young: Young was an American author of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and criticism.

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