![]() ![]() ![]() Young once described her imagination as “muralist,” telling the Paris Review, “I like to see the epic swing of the thing, the many as opposed to the one. Running 1,198 pages, it is the longest novel in English published as a single volume. It took her 18 years to finish her next book, Miss MacIntosh, My Darling (1965), a sprawling epic detailing the inner adventures of Vera Cartwheel as she embarks on an imaginary journey to discover the truth of her beloved nursemaid, Miss MacIntosh. ![]() Young’s second collection of poems, Moderate Fable (1944), and her account of Utopian communities in New Harmony, Indiana, Angel in the Forest (1945), created a splash in the literary scene of Greenwich Village. Young published her first book of poems, Prismatic Ground (1937), soon after graduating from Chicago she taught in Indianapolis, at a high school, and at the University of Iowa before moving to New York City in 1943. The experience informed Young’s later writings. While at Chicago, Young took a job reading to Minna Weissenbach, a society woman and opium addict who was a patron of Edna St. I remember telling my grandmother, when I was about seven years old, that I intended to be a poet.” Young studied at Indiana University and Butler University and earned an MA in Elizabethan and Jacobean literature at the University of Chicago. ![]() In an interview with the Paris Review, Young recounted, “We were brought up to believe that to be born in Indiana was to be born a poet-a myth which I can't accept now, but I did then. Poet, novelist, and biographer Marguerite V. ![]()
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