Learning to Fly: A Writer's Memoir

by Mary Lee Settle

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 mother sends Mary Lee off to a theater apprenticeship, inadvertently setting her on a road...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393057321
• ISBN13: 9780393057324
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful Cultural History

Filled with humor and grace, a wonderfully written memoir that is both cultural history and enlightening to personal present day struggles.