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To begin again stories and memoirs, 1908-1929

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Main Author: Fisher, M. F. K. (Mary Frances Kennedy), 1908-1992
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Pantheon Books, 1992.
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Fisher, M. F. K. > (Mary Frances Kennedy), > 1908- > Biography.
Authors, American > 20th century > Biography.
Food writers > Biography.
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Physical Description:179 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN:0679415769
Author Notes:Born July 3, 1908, in Albion, Michigan, M.F.K Fisher was raised primarily in Whittier, California, where she enjoyed cooking meals for her family. Encouraged in literary pursuits by her parents, she combined her favorite pastimes-cooking and writing-and began writing about cooking as early as 1929 when she moved to Dijon, France, with her first husband, Alfred Fisher.

Fisher was educated at Illinois College, Occidental College, the University of California at Los Angeles, and the University of Dijon. She has written under the names Mary Frances Parrish, Victoria Bern, and Victoria Berne. A prolific author, her work is primarily autobiography and memoir. Her long list of publications includes Dubious Honors (1988) and Stay Me, Oh Comfort Me: Journals and Stories, 1933-1945, (1993). She also contributed articles to widely known magazines, including the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and Gourmet.

Fisher died of Parkinson's disease on June 22, 1992, in Glen Ellen, California.

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