![]() In that sense, she may have been ahead of her time.įinally, I understand that it's just plain hard for any author to get his or her work published and obtain wide recognition. It may well be that the publishing world and reading public hadn't developed a taste for the genre at the time that Lucia was writing. The whole genre of non-celebrity memoirs, as I understand it, got started in the '90's with the publication of "The Liars' Club" by Mary Karr. Third, the totality of MCW can (should?) be viewed as a memoir. Who was there to champion her work during her lifetime and help her gain a national reputation? Second, Lucia was writing in the western United States rather than the east where she might have had better access to a major editor and publisher. Alice Munro and a few others are notable exceptions. I think it is much harder for a short story writer to obtain wide recognition than for a novelist. I don't believe that she ever wrote a novel. ![]() ![]() First, I understand that her entire oeuvre consists of 76 short stories. I suspect that there are a number of other explanations. Certainly there are plenty of published women authors out there. John I'm not sure that there is any evidence that sexism or classism or any other "ism" was involved in causing her to be relatively obscure before the pub …more I'm not sure that there is any evidence that sexism or classism or any other "ism" was involved in causing her to be relatively obscure before the publication of MCW. ![]()
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