Books by Mildred Walker and Complete Book Reviews
Mildred Walker, Author, Annick Smith, Introduction by, A. Smith, Author Bison Books $14.95 (314p) ISBN 978-0-8032-9758-6
Getting out of one's too-confining hometown is the lifelong dream of more than a few, and so it is with Celie Henderson, the paler, Swedish version of Dreiser's Carrie Meeber in Walker's long out-of-print 1934 novel. Celie lives and works with her...
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Mildred Walker, Author, James Welch, Introduction by University of Nebraska Press $13.95 (306p) ISBN 978-0-8032-9741-8
This coming-of-age story about a young Montana woman was nominated for a National Book Award when first published in 1944. (Dec.)
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Mildred Walker, Author, Carmen Pearson, Editor , edited by Carmen Pearson. Univ. of Nebraska $24.95 (310p) ISBN 978-0-8032-9864-4
Known in the mid-20th century for her American chronicles (Winter Wheat
; Fireweed
), Walker (1905–1998) was unable to publish this 1970s tale of two couples' unlikely friendship during her lifetime. (As Pearson, her editor, notes in the...
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