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What is it about the relationship between fathers and daughters that provokes so much exquisite tenderness, satisfying communion, longing for more, idealization from both ends, followed often if not inevitably by disappointment, hurt, and the need to understand and forgive, or to finger the guilt of not understanding and loving enough? writes Phillip Lopate, in his introduction to Every Father's Daughter, a collection of 24 personal essays by women writers writing about their fathers. The editor, Margaret McMullan, is herself a distinguished novelist and educator. About half of these essays were written by invitation for this anthology; others were selected by Ms. McMullan and her associate, Philip Lopate, who provides an introduction. The contributors include many well-known writers Alice Munro, Jayne Anne Phillips, Alexandra Styron, Ann Hood, Bobbie Ann Mason, Maxine Hong Kingston, among others as well as writers less well-known but no less cogent, inventive, perceptive, lacerating, questioning, or loving of their fathers.
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Margaret McMullan is the author of nine award-winning books including In My Mother's House, Sources of Light and the anthology Every Father's Daughter, winner of the 2017 Independent Press Award for Best Anthology and a Parade Magazine "Sizzling Summer Read." Her memoir, Where The Angels Lived is the 2020 winner of the MIAL Nonfiction Award and shortlisted for the 2019 Sarton Women's Book Award.Margaret's work has appeared in USA Today, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, The Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, The Boston Herald, Glamour, The Millions, Southern Accents, The Morning Consult, TriQuarterly, National Geographic for Kids, and The Sun among others. A recipient of a 2010 NEA Fellowship in literature and a 2010 Fulbright to teach in Hungary, Margaret is the National Author Winner of the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Award. Visit her website at: www.margaretmcmullan.com
