![]() ![]() It’s just that that whole clubby thing sort of gives me the creeps.” “I’m not exactly a hermit,” she said once, “but I’m really no good at meeting lots of strangers and I’d resent being set up as the new arrival in the zoo. This listing (alongside heavyweights like John Updike, Eudora Welty, and Thomas Pynchon) briefly thrust Ingalls, and her slim-but-devastating tale of a grieving suburban housewife who enters into a passionate affair with an fugitive humanoid sea creature, into the literary spotlight-a position in which she was never really comfortable. Caliban a wild-card entry on a list of the twenty best postwar American novels. until 1986, when the British Book Marketing Council named Mrs. ![]() ![]() from Radcliffe College before a summer trip to London for the William Shakespeare 400th birthday celebrations- “to see and hear his plays as close to the sources as possible”-convinced her to emigrate permanently to the Bard’s homeland.ĭespite winning the Authors’ Club First Novel Award in 1970 for Theft, Ingalls was virtually unknown in the U.S. The daughter of a housewife and a Harvard Sanskrit professor, Ingalls was raised in Massachusetts and received a B.A. ![]()
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