Late Bloomer - Paperback

by Mary Lou Dickinson (Author)

Born in the shadow of World War II, Mary Lou Dickinson came of age in an era that expected women to conform?but she never did. A feminist writer of the Silent Generation, she carved her own path as a single mother in the 1970s, juggling multiple jobs to support herself and her children. Her life changed when she found solidarity in the women's movement, drawing earlier inspiration from Betty Friedan and later working to support survivors of assault. Though she had long published stories in literary magazines, it wasn't until the age of 70 that her first book was published, proving that it's never too late to claim ones voice.

Author Biography

Mary Lou Dickinson lives in a downtown condo in Toronto, Ontario with a tree at her window as reminder of her northern roots in a frontier Quebec mining town. She enjoyed a career that ended with 15 years as a crisis telephone counsellor for assaulted women. Always writing as well, with several short stories published in literary periodicals, she has been able to devote her retirement to writing. Her first published piece, at age 6, was a poem in her grandmother's food column in the Toronto Telegram. She now has six published books in various genres - literary fiction, mystery, as well as this memoir. She has completed another collection of short stories and is working on a new novel. (At 87, she is still writing.)