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“The Southwest Corner” by
Mildred Walker will be discussed on Wednesday, May 23 at 6:00pm at the Grafton Public Library.
Mildred Walker was a highly regarded
author who published 13 novels over the course of her career. She was
nominated for the National Book Award for “The Body of a Young Man”, was a
Fulbright lecturer in Japan in the early 1960s and lived to see her
body of work be reprinted by Bison Press in the 1990s, gaining her a second
round of recognition as a noteworthy American author.
Her novels are set primarily
in New England and the Western United States. Her family summered in Grafton, Vermont and she considered the Walker house in Grafton her childhood home. This
home remains with the Walker family and is occupied by her son, Christopher Schemm.
Five of her novels are set
in Vermont, including “The Southwest Corner”. In 1955, John Cecil Holm’s adaptation of
“The Southwest Corner” was performed on Broadway and later became a Kraft
Television Theatre production. This
spring, the Springfield Players based in Springfield, Vermont will perform
“The Southwest Corner”.
Please join us for the
discussion of a book set in the village of Grafton by a talented author, who
not only had a keen eye for village life, but also painted complex portraits
of women and women’s roles in the first half of the 20th
century. For those who are interested,
we plan to organize a field trip to see “The Southwest Corner” performed the
following weekend in Springfield.
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Links of Interest
Mildred Walker
New
York Times Archives
Great
Falls Tribune article
“The
Southwest Corner”
Broadway
play by John Cecil Holm
“The Southwest Corner”
Springfield
Players production
“The
Southwest Corner”
Amazon
link
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