Katherine Mansfield
Listed in the Literature category on Art In Fiction, Katherine Mansfield (2020),Joanna FitzPatrick’s debut novel, captures the extraordinary mind and heart of a great writer. Katherine Mansfield was succeeding with her ambitious plan to move to England until October 14th, her thirtieth birthday, when her doctors advised her to move to an open-air sanatorium, and quietly die in six months from tuberculosis, a degenerating disease that eventually blocked her writing, derailed her marriage, and fostered a growing dependency on her devoted caregiver, LM. Beautiful and profoundly moving, the novel takes readers on an inspirational, literary journey that explores the fear, loneliness and hope of a master storyteller compelled to risk anything in her urgent pursuit to write daringly innovative stories, cure her tuberculosis, and heal her withered soul. The emotional intensity of this journey is riveting. "A historical novel reconstructs the life of Katherine Mansfield as she becomes a noted short-story writer and critic while battling tuberculosis . . . FitzPatrick deftly captures Mansfield's fervent dedication to her craft and her unwavering hope that she will overcome her illness. A well-informed, intuitive account of a singular moderninst writer whose life is cut short."- Kirkus Reviews Joanna FitzPatrick's first foray into writing came about when she wrote Hollywood screenplays and learned to see through the eye of a camera. The result was White Lilacs and Pink Champagne . She then turned to the music field and had a successful and vibrant career working with Bette Midler and managing The Manhattan Transfer. Later she left Hollywood for Manhattan to become the managing director of Gramavision Records, promoting jazz, blues, and eclectic classical music. She left the music industry several years later and returned to her first passion, literature. Joanna FitzPatrick lives and writes in New York City and Teyssières, southern France. Buy Now from Bookshop Find other novels by Joanna FitzPatrick on Art In Fiction.
