Prodigal Daughter: A Biography of Sherwood Bonner

Sometimes enigmatic and often shocking, Sherwood Bonner (Katharine Bonner McDowell, 1849-1883) defied accepted notions of what she ought or ought not to be. Born into the Mississippi planter aristocracy, she married at age twenty-two and bore a child. Less than two years later, however, she left her husband, daughter, and native state to pursue education in Boston and fulfill her ambition of becoming a writer.McAlexander, Hubert H. is the author of 'Prodigal Daughter: A Biography of Sherwood Bonner' with ISBN 9780807108628 and ISBN 0807108626.