The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem

by Julie Phillips

Book Overview

What does a great artist who is also a mother look like? What does it mean to create, not in "a room of one's own," but in a domestic space? In The Baby on the Fire Escape, award-winning biographer Julie Phillips traverses the shifting terrain where motherhood and creativity converge.

With fierce empathy, Phillips evokes the intimate and varied struggles of brilliant artists and writers of the twentieth century. Ursula K. Le Guin found productive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324064439
• ISBN13: 9781324064435
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.3"