Odyssey of a Wandering Mind: The Strange Tale of Sara Mayfield, Author

by Jennifer Horne

A carefully rendered portrait of a brilliant but troubled daughter of the Old South who struggled against the conventions of gender, class, family, and ultimately of sanity, yet survived to define a creative life of her own

Sara Mayfield was born into Alabama's governing elite in 1905 and grew up in a social circle that included Zelda Sayre, Sara Haardt, and Tallulah and Eugenia Bankhead. After winning a Goucher College short story...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817321365
• ISBN13: 9780817321369
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"