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Book Review of I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography

I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography
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The story starts with Sarton's Belgian childhood and her parents--her father, a brilliant historian of science, and her mother, an artist. It goes up to her embarkation on a writer's life at the age of twenty-four with her first book of poetry.