"[This] handsomely illustrated comprehensive anthology reveals the
full variety, scope and growth of [Le Sueur's] career. . . . Edited
admirably by Elaine Hedges, Ripening inspires belief in the power
of a writer--and a woman--to prevail against poverty, persecution
and public neglect." --New York Times Book Review "This excellent
sampler of work from her entire career shows how richly Le Sueur,
who is best known for her proletarian writings of the 1930s,
deserves wider recognition." --Publishers Weekly "Le Sueur is a
feminist, a regional writer, a writer about both the pull of sexual
desire and the harsh choices of life in the Depression; she is also
a reporter who tells of strikes and daily privations. . . . When
her stylistic and thematic elements are in balance, she is like no
one else." --The Nation "What's truly impressive here is Le Sueur's
journalism of the 1930s. . . . These vivid pieces . . . are urban
literary corollaries to Dorothea Lange's unsparing yet abundantly
piteous Farm Security Administration photos of the same era."
--Kirkus "I'm glad that Meridel Le Sueur began her life a few years
before me so that I was able to read when young her wonderful
stories about working people in the cities and towns in the
Midwest. I am grateful to the women's movement and the Feminist
Press that we can read her stories again." --Grace Paley, author of
The Little Disturbances of Man
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