Despite winning the National Book Award in Arts and Letters in 1965 and then having one of her novels chosen as the primary Book-of-the-Month Club selection in 1970, Eleanor Clark has never enjoyed the degree of success and recognition that America has bestowed upon many far less talented writers. Her career began auspiciously with a well-received first novel and a highly praised book of nonfiction, but then after her marriage to Robert Penn Warren, her writing took second place to family life and their two children. Within the last fifteen years, however, her output has included two more novels, a novella and story collection, and two additional books of nonfiction. An original and serious artist, she has demonstrated from the start an uncompromising avoidance of the formulaic bestseller approach, producing instead a relatively small but solidly impressive body of fiction and nonfiction that continues to merit attentive reading and appreciation...