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Robin Clifford Wood has a BA from Yale University, an MA in English from the University of Rochester, and an MFA in creative writing from the Stonecoast program at the University of Southern Maine. During twenty-five years as a full-time mom, she published local human-interest features in New Hampshire, New York, and Massachusetts and spent seven years as a regular columnist, first in Massachusetts, then for Maine’s Bangor Daily News. She began teaching college writing in 2015. Her articles have appeared in Port City Life magazine, Bangor Metro, and Solstice literary magazine, which published her powerful essay “How Do You Help Your Parents Die?” in its spring 2019 issue. For more information, visit www.robincliffordwood.com. Wood lives in central Maine with her husband and dogs. The Field House is her first book.
2022 16th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards Winner in
Biography: Historical
2022 Maine Literary Award: Winner, non-fiction2022 John N. Cole
Award: Maine-based non-fiction2021 Readers' Favorite: Gold-Medal
winner
"[Wood's] passionate prose and carefully curated primary sources
will certainly convince readers that Field is not a writer to
overlook."
--Kirkus Reviews "I just finished this lovely book and feel richer
for it. Meticulously researched and deeply felt, The Field House is
a compelling hybrid of biography and memoir. An exploration of the
life and legacy of novelist-poet Rachel Field, it is interwoven
with personal reflections that reveal the influence of Field's work
ethic and passion on the biographer's life. This book is also a
meditation on the nature of creativity and a love letter to a house
on Sutton Island in Maine once owned by Field and now by Wood. For
both writers, the house became a touchstone and a haven, a place to
reflect and rejuvenate and create."
--#1 New York Times best-selling author Christina Baker Kline "The
Field House lures readers to 'a long-abandoned, wood-framed house
on an island off the coast of Maine.' When author Robin Clifford
Wood buys a summer cottage belonging to famed poet and
award-winning author Rachel Field, Wood is haunted by Field's
sudden death, her untold stories. Discovering treasures and clues
Field left behind, Wood weaves a stunning and intimate portrait of
a once-prized American writer and poet who deserves to be
remembered."
--Barbara Walsh, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and author of August
Gale: A Father and Daughter's Journey into the Storm and Sammy in
the Sky "Robin Clifford Wood's biography of Rachel Field is a
beautiful and thorough history of an artist and writer with
important connections to Maine. In The Field House, Wood doesn't
back away from the complexity of Field's life: self-doubt,
aspirations, flaws, triumphs, unrequited loves, and final losses.
And yet this book is also a clear-eyed survey of the literary world
of the 1920s and '30s, Maine island life, and a woman who,
transcending gender roles and notions of physical beauty, offered
the world a gift that, because of Wood's deeply personal book, will
hopefully never be forgotten."
--Jaed Coffin, author of Roughhouse Friday and A Chant to Soothe
Wild Elephants "I highly recommend Wood's enchanting The Field
House, her intensely personal reckoning with the life and work of
the nearly forgotten author Rachel Field . . . Field left plenty of
evidence for her biographer to explore--in archives across the
country, and in the Maine island cottage they both called home in a
curious twist of fate that enabled this charming and heartfelt
narrative."
--Megan Marshall, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Margaret Fuller:
A New American Life and Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast
"This elegant hybrid of biography and memoir introduced me to
Rachel Field and Robin Clifford Wood, whose lives, separated by
generations, uncannily twine. Compelling, instructive, inspiring,
and beautifully written. I was greatly moved."
--Monica Wood, award-winning author of The One-in-a-million Boy,
When We Were the Kennedys, and Any Bitter Thing "Robin Clifford
Wood has combined immense archival material and keen insights to
create a detailed and enchanting biography of Rachel Field. The
author's skillful use of granular sources, paired with her
sophisticated wordsmithing, has produced a book that is both
informative and lyrical. Readers will also appreciate the author's
parallel discussion of the writing process itself--an articulate
discussion that will undoubtedly seem familiar to anyone who has
ever struggled to discover and tell a story. This is a delight to
read."
--historian Jacalyn Eddy, author of Bookwomen: Creating an Empire
in Children's Book Publishing, 1919-1939 "This fascinating book
about the life of Newbery Medal-winning author Rachel Field lives
at the intersection of seamless research and rich personal
reflection. Wood offers such insightful, knowing details about
Field's writing life and her personal attachment to Maine, that we
come to feel we are reading the account of a close friend.
Wonderfully executed, The Field House renders Field's extraordinary
life with great empathy and beautiful, lucid prose."
--Susan Conley, critically acclaimed author of Landslide, Elsey
Come Home, The Foremost Good Fortune, and Paris Was the Place "This
wonderful book--based on meticulously thorough, devoted
research--is a lovingly tender, wise, and judicious account of
Rachel Field and her world. Its unusual blend of memoir and
biography helps to illuminate the life, even as a poignant dialogue
between the author and her subject unfolds. Truly, a
tour-de-force!"
--Benson Bobrick, award-winning author of Angel in the Whirlwind
and Wide as the Waters: The Story of the English Bible and the
Revolution it Inspired
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