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Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years

Margaret Mead

The autobiography of a pioneer, this is Margaret Mead's story of her life as a woman and as an anthropologist. An enduring cultural icon, she came to represent the new woman, successfully combining motherhood with career, and scholarship with concern for its role in the lives of ordinary people.

Memoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Autobiography · medium confidenceMemoir & Autobiography81 signalsLlm Classifier: Memoir & Autobiography -> Memoir & AutobiographyOpen Library: Biography -> BiographyOpen Library: Mead, margaret, 1901-1978 -> BiographyFamily BiographyMemoir & Personal HistoryBlack History & Culture

Award History

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AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
National Book Award for BiographyMajor1973FinalistSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    • Margaret Mead85%

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    Margaret Mead’s life is presented as successfully combining motherhood with career and scholarship with concern for ordinary people’s lives.

    Model confidence 72%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    35 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

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