An Angel at My Table: An Autobiography

To the Is-Land is the first book of Janet Frame's three-volume autobiography, described by Michael Holroyd as 'one of the greatest autobiographies written this century.' It chronicles her childhood and adolescence spent in a materially poor but intellectually intense railway family in the 1920s and 30s. First published in 1983, it won the prestigious Wattie Book of the Year. Janet Frame is New Zealand's best-known living writer. In addition to her autobiography she has written eleven novels, four collections of short stories, a volume of poetry and a children's book. Her books have won numerous prizes, includung the Commonwealth Prize for Literature in 1989 for her novel The Carpathians. She has been a Burns Scholar, a Sargeson Fellow, and has won the New Zealand Scholarship in Letters. She has also been made as Additional Member of the Order of New Zealand and awarded the CBE, an honorary doctorate in literature by the University of Otago, and is an honary foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. --- from book's back cover Angel at My Table (A Women's Press Classic) The Envoy From Mirror City an Autobiography Volume 3