Josephine W. Johnson (1910-1990) was a novelist and nature writer who in 1935 became the youngest person to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her first novel, Now in November. She began her studies at Washington University and went on to write eleven books over the course of her life. When it was originally published in 1969, The Inland Island, her lyrical examination of a year on her rambling thirty-seven-acre farm in Ohio, became a beloved and critically acclaimed bestseller.
"The Inland Island is a slender little green book full of marvels.
Of delicate marvels, compassionate observations and -- strangest
and loveliest of all -- passionate denunciations.... One hardly
knows which to praise more, the precision of her reporting or the
fiery splendor of her anger, the brilliance of her word-pictures of
the natural world or the bitterness and sorrow in her evocation of
the human world -- the American world."
--New York Times Book Review "Quite simply, this is a beautiful
book... The Inland Island is about nature the way Walden was a book
about nature. It should be read by everyone who still retains the
capacity to feel anything."
--New York Times "Her appreciations of the many forms of natural
life are electrified by discovery and assertion ... some of the
best nature writing we've seen."
--Kirkus Reviews
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