This mesmerizing account by poet Horne (Tell the World You're a Wildflower) skillfully pieces together the disjointed life of biographer Sara Mayfield (1905-1979). Mayfield was raised in Montgomery, Alabama's upper crust alongside friends Zelda Sayre (later Fitzgerald) and actress Tallulah Bankhead.
Journalist Peacock debuts with an excellent biography of 17th-century English author and "proto-feminist" Margaret Cavendish (née Lucas). Born in 1623, Margaret grew up in a wealthy family whose Royalist sympathies during the English Civil War inspired her at age 20 to
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