Background
Sorensen, Virginia was born on February 17, 1912 in Provo, Utah, United States. Daughter of Claud E. and Helen El Deva (Blackett) Eggertsen.
( An Amish girl, Esther feels like "one black bird agains...)
An Amish girl, Esther feels like "one black bird against the sky" in her plain clothes. So when she's forced to attend public school she's terrified. She fears the new world she must enter, fears the way she sticks out next to other kids, and--most of all--fears she may do what her brother did: run away and join the sinful but great wide world she's only just discovering.
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(New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1954. First edition. Octa...)
New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1954. First edition. Octavo, 352 pp. Teal cloth with blue and white imprinting. Near fine book, with some bumping at spine ends and one corner, in a jacket with two closed tears at front top, else a very good jacket which is not clipped, still bearing the $ 3.75 price. See scans. A Mormon novel by Virginia Grayson, author of a series of such novels, including The Proper Gods, A Little Lower Than the Angels, On This Star, The Neighbors, and The Evening and the Morning, and about whom Wallace Stegner said: "She can write better than the majority of the novelists now practicing in this country". Nicely preserved copy. Please see scans. L52n
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Sorensen, Virginia was born on February 17, 1912 in Provo, Utah, United States. Daughter of Claud E. and Helen El Deva (Blackett) Eggertsen.
AB, Brigham Young University, 1934.
With its publication, Alfred Knopf declared, "I have seldom introduced a new novelist with the confidence I feel in the author of this remarkable book lieutenant marks the debut, I believe, of a major American writer" She is considered "one of Utah"s premiere gifts to literary America." Her first book for children, Curious Missy, grew out of her efforts with a bookmobile in Alabama. She received two Guggenheim fellowships, one in 1946 to study tribe of Mexican Indians, and one in 1954 to study in Denmark as regards the history of Sanpete Valley"s settlers.
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(New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1954. First edition. Octa...)
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Member Authors Guild, P.E.N., Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Frederick C. Sorensen, August 16, 1933. Children: Elizabeth (Mistress David Allan Hepburn), Frederick W. Married Alec Waugh, 1969.