In these fifteen remarkable stories, M.F.K. Fisher, one of the most admired writers of our time, embraces the coming of old age. With a saint to guide us, she writes, perhaps we can accept in a loving way "the inevitable visits of a possibly nagging ...
In 1929, Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher arrived in Dijon, the provincial capital of Burgundy and the gastronomical capital of France, there to be initiated into the ways of love and life. Long Ago In France is Fisher's exquisitely evocative, delici...
This volume brings together two delightful books -- Map of Another Town and A Considerable Town -- by one of our most beloved food and travel writers. In her inimitable style, here M.F.K. Fisher tells the stories -- and reveals the secrets -- of two ...
When Robert Lescher died in 2012 an unpublished manuscript of M.F.K. Fisher's was discovered neatly packed in the one of the literary agent's signature red boxes. Inspired by Fisher's affair with Dillwyn Parrish -- who was to become her second husb...
Jennie lives a life of luxury and reckless danger as she resides at different times in San Francisco, Chicago, and Paris, and although her path is devastating to those around her, she sees herself as free from any concern about others....