491 Elizabeth Bishop (with Megan Marshall)
The History of Literature
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I Was a New Englander. I Was an Orphan.
I was a kid who liked little women in high school when you're studying American literature then we were reading Walden Pond and Hawthorne. And actually my parents had lived in Cambridge for a few years at the beginning of their marriage before I was born. My mother sort of persisted in thinking that the East Coast was the height of, I don't know, culture. She was an artist and she had worked for the City Planning Board in Cambridge. It seemed like a place to try to go. But her outlook, I think, was of a bit of a Yankee.
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