Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/421614to listen full audiobooks. Title: Anya Seton: A Writing Life Author: Lucinda H. Mackethan Narrator: Tanya Eby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 38 minutes Release date: August 4, 2020 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Anya Seton was the bestselling author of ten historical novels, including the masterpieces Katherine and The Winthrop Woman, which are still widely beloved over sixty years after their publication; yet there has never before been a book-length biography about this great American writer. Ann Seton was born in 1904 the daughter of two celebrity writers: Ernest Thompson Seton and Grace Gallatin Seton. At age thirty-six and self-renamed Anya, she placed her first novel with a major publisher. Anya the author was protective of her private life yet also mused, 'I suppose I write myself over and over again in my heroines.' She reinvented herself within carefully researched historical settings and biographical materials that provided both escape and wish-fulfillment. In journal entries, letters, and 'self-analyses,' she provides an intimate study of what it meant to her to be a writer. She wrote probably her own best epitaph while working on her masterpiece, Katherine: 'My forte is story, and a peculiarly meticulous (fearful, yes) desire to weave historical fact into story. Make history come alive and as exciting as the past is to me.'

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