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The life of writer and journalist Natalie Scott is documented in this biography from her great-nephew, who is an attorney and former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives. The author obviously shows a great deal of affection for Scott, tracking her life as a patron of the arts, a nurse during World War I and ultimately a philanthropist. Written for general audiences, this book highlights Scott's many achievements, such a receiving the Croix de Guerre and establishing a peasant school and medical co-op in Mexico. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Natalie Scott is widely recognized as a literary and cultural dynamo of the early 1900s. As a Red Cross nurse and translator, she was awarded the Croix de Guerre, France's highest medal for bravery, in World War I. She was also a celebrated writer and journalist in both Mexico and the United States. She founded several artistic and literary colonies, socialized with a group that included William Faulkner and Sherwood Anderson, and even created a peasant school and medical cooperative in impoverished Taxco, Mexico. This incredible account of her passions, causes, and adventures is one of a real New Orleans lady, a lady whose comfort in the role of Southern woman belied the adventurous and varied life she led.
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