Ripening

This first and only comprehensive collection of the literary achievement of Meridel Le Sueur--artist, journalist, political activist, and feminist--includes her best and most representative fiction, reportage, and autobiography from every decade since the twenties. The New York Times Book Review wrote that this volume "inspires belief in the power of a writer-and a woman-to prevail against poverty, persecution and public neglect...(Le Sueur's) consummate achievement as an artist is her transformation of colloquial speech into musical prose."