Blackberry Winter (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Margaret Mead
- First Published: 1972
- Time of Work: 1901–1939
- Setting: Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Samoa, New Guinea, and Bali
- Principal Characters: Margaret Mead, Edward Sherwood Mead, Emily Fogg Mead, Martha Adaline Ramsey Mead, Richard Ramsey Mead, Elizabeth Mead Steig, Priscilla Mead Rosten, Luther Sheeleigh Cressman, Reo F. Fortune, Gregory Bateson, Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, Mary Catherine Bateson
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Autobiography, Islands, Anthropology or anthropologists, Pacific Ocean
- Locales: New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New Guinea, Samoa, Bali
Form and Content
When the postseasonal frost comes to the blackberry blossoms, it helps them set, promising a rich harvest. In Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years, Margaret Mead describes how she sets her course early in life with help from her family. She presents young adult readers with an optimistic view of the richness of her life. The subtitle of the book, My Earlier Years, is misleading because the autobiography also includes information about her later life, even her pleasure in being a grandmother.
Born in 1901 in Philadelphia, Mead was the oldest...
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