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The Life and Times of a Texas Writer
University of Texas Press
January 2013
On Sale: January 2, 2013
Featuring: Winifred Sanford
194 pages
ISBN: 0292742967
EAN: 9780292742963
Kindle: B00BD952GE
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Biography
Winifred Sanford is generally regarded by critics as one of
the best and most important early twentieth-century Texas
women writers, despite publishing only a handful of short
stories before slipping into relative obscurity. First
championed by her mentor, H. L. Mencken, and published in
his magazine, The American Mercury, many of
Sanford's stories were set during the Texas oil boom of the
1920s and 1930s and offer a unique perspective on life in
the boomtowns during that period. Four of her stories were
listed in The Best American Short Stories of
1926. Questioning the sudden end to Sanford's
writing career, Wiesepape, a leading literary historian of
Texas women writers, delved into the author's previously
unexamined private papers and emerged with an insightful and
revealing study that sheds light on both Sanford's
abbreviated career and the domestic lives of women at the
time. The first in-depth account of Sanford's life and work,
Wiesepape's biography discusses Sanford's fiction through
the sociohistorical contexts that shaped and inspired it. In
addition, Wiesepape has included two previously unpublished
stories as well as eighteen previously unpublished letters
to Sanford from Mencken. Winifred Sanford is an illuminating biography of one
of the state's unsung literary jewels and an important and
much-needed addition to the often overlooked field of Texas
women's writing.
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