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And not only that, she's
a very dear friend.

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Marguerite Young is
the author of two books

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of poetry, Prismatic
Ground and Moderate Fable.

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She also published in
1945, a nonfiction work,

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Angel in the Forest, a
Fairy Tale of Two Utopias.

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Her prose and
poetry has appeared

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in numerous periodicals,
including Poetry, the New

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Republic and Kenyon Review.

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In 1945, Ms. Young began
writing a poetic novel

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about the most fascinating
person she had ever known.

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17 years later, she delivered
to Charles Scribner's Sons

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a monumental 3,449
pages of typed script.

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In last September, they
published Miss MacIntosh,

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My Darling.

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Miss MacIntosh has sold
over 40,000 copies,

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at a price of 10.95,
which is something.

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Since poetic novels are
not in fashion just now,

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and since this book is of
such unprecedented length,

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Ms. Young has found
herself the center

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of vast literary
and critical furor.

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I hope she'll tell us
something about that tonight.

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One eminent critic has
said of Miss McIntosh,

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this is the book
from which poets

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will crib their images
for the next 1,000 years,

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and I firmly believe it.

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William Goyen in
the New York Times,

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said it was a work of
stunning magnitude and beauty.

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I'm not going to say
anything more about the book,

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I'll let Ms. Young
talk about it and read

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her poetry and her prose.

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Ms. Young comes to us
from New York City,

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where she is currently on
leave from Fordham University

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and is also currently
teaching a class at the New

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School of Social research.

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She was born and
raised in Indiana,

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and holds a degrees
from Indiana University

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and the University of Chicago.

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She has also attended
Butler University

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and the University of Iowa.

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She has taught at a number
of universities, including

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Iowa, University of Indiana,
Columbia and Fairleigh

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Dickinson.

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When asked why her novel
was so different from and so

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much longer than other
novels written recently,

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Ms. Young said
something which I think

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characterizes her very well.

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She said, because I have
world enough and time.

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And so it gives me a
great deal of pleasure

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to present to you a woman who
has world enough and time, Ms.

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Marguerite Young.

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[APPLAUSE]

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