cover image Waiting for the Party

Waiting for the Party

Ann Thwaite. David R. Godine Publisher, $13.95 (288pp) ISBN 978-0-87923-790-5

Lacking personal happiness despite her professional success, Burnett, best known for children's tales, was also an author of adult fiction and a friend of Henry James and President Garfield. PW called this ``an absorbing view of an unusual and restless woman whose fiction had the world dancing to her tune.'' Illustrated. (Feb.)