Maeve Brennan

‘A biography to savour and treasure. Angela Bourke is as expert on Irish history as she is on the cultural ambience of the male-dominated New Yorker. Her book has wit, sensitivity and insight; everything that Brennan, herself, would have approved of.’ * Frances Spalding, Daily Mail *
‘Hugely entertaining and thought-provoking, and upsetting and funny, and tender and wise.’ * Roddy Doyle *
‘A labour of love and a profound study of literary life in 20th-century America.’ * Roy Foster, Financial Times *
‘This book needed to be written and Angela Bourke was the perfect author…meticulously researched, detailed and beautifully written.’ * Evening Herald *
‘Bourke merges beautifully the small milestones in the young Maeve’s life with the large public events that were going around her…She deftly builds up a tapestry-like texture of Maeve Brennan’s young life, which the author herself so successfully mined in her fiction.’ * Irish Times *
‘Bourke has done us all a tremendous service in writing this book.Not least because it compels one to rush immediately to read Brennan’s work.Bourke is a meticulous and thorough researcher.’ * Sunday Tribune *
‘thorough biography’ – Helen Zaltman * Observer *

Angela Bourke is the author of The Burning of Bridget Cleary- A True Story (winner of several awards, including the Irish Times Literature Prize for Irish Non-Fiction), and By Salt Water. Born in Dublin, where she still lives, she has spent long periods in the USA, and has held visiting academic positions at Harvard University, Boston College and the University of Minnesota. A leading scholar in interdisciplinary Irish Studies, Angela Bourke writes in Irish and English, and makes frequent appearances on television and radio. She is Senior Lecturer in Irish at University College Dublin, The National University of Ireland, Dublin.

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