Borenstein, Audrey – 15
Subjects:
Dreams; family life; journal-keeping; teaching; writing/the writing life
Writing Description:
Fragmentary writing in a notebook spanning ten years opens out into a book of its own by the late 1970s. Entries interweave family life and part-time college teaching with the keeper’s change of voice as poet, fiction writer and essayist. Recurrent dreams of a newly-discovered room and of a miraculously speaking infant, the gradual apprehension of the Zeitgeist’s themes of possession and dismemberment and of parallel lives reveal the last turbulent year of this Volume as marking the midlife passage of a writer striving to build a bridge between real and imagined worlds and the ensoulment of her Journal by her “old compañero.”
Volume is entitled: ONE JOURNAL’S BEGINNINGS: THE EARLY YEARS, Volume III of Series, 1964-1979.
Writing Type:
JDN
Gender:
Female
Birth Year:
1930
Death Year:
Occupation and Interests:
Writer; Adjunct professor of sociology and anthropology, 1964-1986; author of ONE JOURNAL’S LIFE; SIMURGH; CHIMES OF CHANGE AND HOURS; REDEEMING THE SIN; OLDER WOMEN IN 20TH-CENTURY AMERICA: A SELECTED ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY; CUSTOM: AN ESSAY ON SOCIAL CODES, a translation of Ferdinand Tönnies’s DIE SITTE; co-author of THROUGH THE YEARS: A CHRONICLE OF CONGREGATION AHAVATH ACHIM, 5725-5750; published essays, among them “The Spy In the Citadel” in the Summer 2003 issue of the ANTIOCH REVIEW; published short fiction in dozens of literary magazines and anthologies; published Journal Writings, poetry and journalism.
Age(s):
33-49
Author Location(s):
Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Mount Vernon, Iowa; New Paltz, New York
Writing Location(s):
Dates:
1964-1979
Handwritten:
Typed:
Yes
Digital:
Self-published:
Number of Pages, etc.:
464 pages, double-spaced, includes Foreword.
Contact Person:
Audrey Borenstein
Contact Person/Author Relationship:
Same
Address:
Contact LWC
Phone:
Email:
Date Entered:
07/2004
Date Revised/Confirmed:
02/2007
Entry Filed under: b,Female,Journals, Diaries, and Notebooks