Again Calls the Owl

By Margaret Craven

Book Overview

"A rich memoir . . . a woman of sensitivity, forthrightness, warmth, and talent."- Booklist To become a writer, she chose loneliness. To write a bestseller, she embraced a rugged land. Deceptively simple in style, stunning in its implications, this gem of an autobiography carries readers back to the beginning of the century when Margaret Craven-one a handful of women at Stanford and a groundbreaking woman journalist-made the audacious decision not to work for a living, but to work as a writer. Here Margaret Craven brings vividly to life an idyllic childhood which suddenly vanishes; advice from a red-robed Gertrude Stein propped up in bed; a nearly tragic battle with blindness; and a fateful trip to a magnificently wild Pacific Northwest, a town called Kingcome . . . and her emergence, at sixty-nine, as a women who realized a dream. Praise for Again Calls the Owl "A writer of compassion, humor, spirit, and persistence." - St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Readers will find in this small memoir courage, joy, inspiration." - Library Journal "An unabashed joy for living." - Santa Barbara News-Press

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0440300746
• ISBN13: 9780440300748
• Release Date: December 1983
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Again calls the owl

Interesting, particularly when M. Craven talks about writing "I heard the owl call my name".

It focused on accomplishing your goals no matter what!

Margaret Craven really emphasized the fact that no matter what you go through you can still accomplish your goals. She got blind from an accident and then did what she could to fulfill her dream, to write 2 more books. One about the Indian Life and the last one about her childhood days. This book was just an enjoyable biography!