The Box Closet: Finding Family

by Mary Meigs

Overview

The box closet was a real closet in the attic of the family house in Washington, D.C. in which Mary Meigs grew up. Letters and diaries were found there after her mother’s death in 1958, and when Meigs read them she decided that they were the material for a book. The result is a moving portrait of a family.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780889229709
Publisher:	Talonbooks, Limited
Publication date:	07/17/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Mary Meigs
Born in Philadelphia, writer and painter Mary Meigs wrote her first novel, Lily Briscoe: A Self-Portrait, at the age of 60. For the next two decades, Meigs chronicled her extraordinary life as a writer, a painter, an actress, a social activist and a lesbian feminist. In 1988, Meigs played herself in the critically acclaimed film The Company of Strangers, which resulted in the publication of In the Company of Strangers (1991), a fascinating work documenting her experience during the production of the film. Mary Meigs died in 2002 at the age of 85, shortly before the completion of Beyond Recall.