Herself and Others: A Memoir

Emerita Professor Jean McGarry is best known as an author of novels and short stories, including her prize-winning 2006 novel A Bad & Stupid Girl. She breaks new ground with this revealing personal memoir of a life originally grounded in Catholicism. It is a tale of how she survived not completely unscathed, but intact. She pulls no punches about her own failures, misgivings, torments, fears, and thrills as she bares her soul in a kind, daring, and entertaining fashion. McGarry’s tale of her career as a fiction writer will give solace to budding writers of how tortuous the journey may be to arrive at the summit of a successful writing career.