11 Facts About Marguerite Young

Marguerite Vivian Young was an American novelist and academic.

Marguerite Young is best known for her novel Miss MacIntosh, My Darling.

Marguerite Young studied at Butler University in Indianapolis, receiving a BA in French and English.

Marguerite Young then attended the University of Chicago, auditing Thornton Wilder's writing class at his invitation.

Marguerite Young briefly taught at Shortridge High School before embarking on a distinguished literary career.

Marguerite Young relocated to New Harmony and spent seven years there, beginning work on Angel in the Forest, a study of utopian concepts and communities, at the same time producing Moderate Fable, which won the poetry prize from the National Academy of Arts and Letters.

Marguerite Young had a complex friendship with Carson McCullers and Truman Capote, with whom she published in the international literary magazine Botteghe Oscure, edited by Princess Marguerite Chapin Caetini.

Marguerite Young wrote articles, poetry, and book reviews while teaching creative writing at various venues, including the New School for Social Research, Fordham University, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Marguerite Young projected a three-volume epic history of the people, through Debs's battles for workers rights and the development of the Locomotive Firemen's workers union.

In Part II of Harp Song for a Radical, Marguerite Young establishes that Eugene Debs was the catalyst through which these principles became the basic tenets of the labor movement in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Also in her last illness, Marguerite Young returned to writing poetry.