Marjory Stoneman Douglas: Voice of the River

Author: Douglas, Marjory StonemanBrand: Pineapple PressEdition: 1st,RevisedFeatures: Used Book in Good ConditionBinding: HardcoverNumber Of Pages: 268Release Date: 01-08-1987Details: Born in Minnesota in 1890 and raised and educated in Massachusetts, Marjory Stoneman Douglas came to Florida in 1915 to work for her father, who had just started a newspaper called the Herald in a small town called Miami. In this "frontier" town, she recovered from a misjudged marriage, learned to write journalism and fiction and drama, took on the fight for feminism and racial justice and conservation long before those causes became popular, and embarked on a long and uncommonly successful voyage into self-understanding. Way before women did this sort of thing, she recognized her own need for solitude and independence, and built her own little house away from town in an area called Coconut Grove. She still lives there, as she has for over 40 years, with her books and cats and causes, emerging frequently t