{"product_id":"again-calls-the-owl-isbn-9780440300748","title":"Again Calls the Owl","description":"\u003cb\u003e“A rich memoir . . . a woman of sensitivity, forthrightness, warmth, and talent.”—\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTo become a writer, she chose loneliness. To write a bestseller, she embraced a rugged land.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eAgain Calls the Owl\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A writer of compassion, humor, spirit, and persistence.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eSt. Louis Post-Dispatch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Readers will find in this small memoir courage, joy, inspiration.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “An unabashed joy for living.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eSanta Barbara News-Press\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“A rich memoir . . . a woman of sensitivity, forthrightness, warmth, and talent.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A writer of compassion, humor, spirit, and persistence.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eSt. Louis Post-Dispatch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Readers will find in this small memoir courage, joy, inspiration.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An unabashed joy for living.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eSanta Barbara News-Press\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eMargaret Craven\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Montana in 1901. Upon her graduation from Stanford University in 1924, she moved permanently to California. In 1941 she started writing for the \u003ci\u003eSaturday Evening Post\u003c\/i\u003e, which continued publishing her stories for 20 years. A visit to the Kwakiutl on the B.C. coast inspired her first novel, \u003ci\u003eI Heard the Owl Call My Name\u003c\/i\u003e, which became a bestseller in 1973, selling over one million copies, and was adapted as a television movie for CBS. Margaret published a second novel, \u003ci\u003eWalk Gently This Good Earth\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1977, and an autobiography, \u003ci\u003eAgain Calls the Owl\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1980.","brand":"Dell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305517371621,"sku":"NP9780440300748","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780440300748.jpg?v=1767721119","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/again-calls-the-owl-isbn-9780440300748","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}