Nancy McCabe is the author of five books, including the novel Following Disasters and the memoir From Little Houses to Little Women: Revisiting a Literary Childhood. Her work has received a Pushcart and made notable lists seven times in Best American anthologies. · From Little Houses to Little Women reveals McCabe's powerful connection to the characters and authors who inspired many generations of readers. Traveling with McCabe as she rediscovers the books that shaped her and ultimately helped her to forge her own path, readers will enjoy revisiting their own childhood favorites as well. Dr. Nancy McCabe Director of Writing Program From Little Houses to Little Women: Revisiting a Literary Childhood; the novel Following Disasters; an essay collection, After the Flashlight Man: A Memoir of Awakening; and two books about China adoption, Crossing the Blue Willow Bridge: A Journey to My Daughter’s Birthplace in China and.
Creative Non-Ficion / Memoir / Travel Date Published: Paperback out this March / eBook November Publisher: University of Missouri Press Nancy McCabe, who grew up in Kansas just a few hours from the Ingalls family's home in Little House on the Prairie, always felt a deep connection with Laura . Constructing the Little House - Ann Romines - The author examines the writing of the Little House books and "explores the relationship between mother and daughter working as collaborative authors and calls into question our assumptions about plot, juvenile fiction, and constructions of. Nancy McCabe From Little Houses to Little Women Revisiting a Literary Childhood.
From Little Houses to Little Women is one woman’s attempt to trace the events of her life back to favorite childhood books. McCabe explains in the Prologue that, as happens with so many of us, during her teenage years, she no longer experienced books the same way she had as a child. In From Little Houses to Little Women, Nancy McCabe revisits the children’s books that have shaped all of our imaginations. She discusses the impact that her favorite writers had on her youth and journeys to tourist sites related to their lives, including the Missouri of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the Minnesota of Maud Hart Lovelace, the Massachusetts of Louisa May Alcott, and the Canada of Lucy Maud Montgomery. Nancy McCabe, who grew up in Kansas just a few hours from the Ingalls family’s home in Little House on the Prairie, always felt a deep connection with Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the Little House series. McCabe read Little House on the Prairie during her childhood and visited Wilder sites around the Midwest with her aunt when she was But then, she didn’t read the series again until she decided to revisit in adulthood the books that had so influenced her childhood.
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