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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

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.

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