Marguerite Young

Marguerite Young (born August 28, 1908, Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S—died November 17, 1995, Indianapolis) was an American writer best known for Miss MacIntosh, My Darling (1965), a mammoth, many-layered novel of illusion and reality. (Read Britannica’s article “Massive Tomes: 10 of the World’s Longest Novels.”) Educated at Indiana University and Butler University, Indianapolis (B.A., 1930), Young also studied at the University of Chicago (M.A., 1936) and did graduate work at the University of Iowa. Thereafter she...