Barrett Willoughby: Alaska's Forgotten Lady

by Nancy Warren Ferrell

Book Overview

Barrett Willoughby was hailed in her time as "the first real Alaskan novelist," and her works of romantic fiction and nonfiction charmed the national press during the 1920s and 1930s. Starting in early childhood, Willoughby spent many years in Alaska, far more time than did any of her still-famous contemporaries such as Robert Service and Jack London and loved the north passionately. But the north she loved and described vividly was not the harsh...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0912006765
• ISBN13: 9780912006765
• Release Date: July 1994
• Publisher: University of Alaska Press
• Length: 188 Pages