Maine writer Rachel Field celebrated in new book
CRANBERRY ISLES “The Field House: A Writer’s Life Lost and Found on an Island in Maine,” Robin Clifford Wood’s memoir/biography exploring the late Sutton Island writer Rachel Field’s remarkable life, was scheduled to be released Tuesday, May 4. Wood writes from the perspective of a woman who lived in Field’s old, neglected island home, sparking a unique sisterhood across time.
Wood will sign copies in-person of “The Field House” (She Writes Press, 2021) from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday, May 7, at the Edythe Dyer Library in Hampden. At 7 p.m. Thursday, June 3, Bar Harbor’s Jesup Memorial Library will host Wood in an online presentation. At 6 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 18, the author will give an online talk and answer questions through the Bangor Public Library.
Robin Clifford Wood. (Photo courtesy Left Bank Books)
Christina Baker Kline. (Photo courtesy Left Bank Books)
The public is invited to a virtual conversation on Tuesday, May 4, at 7 p.m., when novelist Christina Baker Kline and debut author Robin Clifford Wood discuss Wood’s just-released book,
The Field House: A Writer’s Life Lost and Found on an Island in Maine. The free event is being co-hosted by Left Bank Books in Belfast and The Bangor Daily News. To register:https://leftbankbookshop.com/events
The Field House explores the life and legacy of multiple-award-winning author Rachel Field, whose works for adults and children were once wildly successful yet are now largely forgotten. Born of illustrious New England stock, Field was a National Book Award-winning novelist, a Newbery Medal-winning children’s writer