ABSTRACT
When she was nine months old, Peg Bracken's family moved from Filer, Idaho, to Duluth, Minnesota, and then to Clayton, Missouri. In 1966 Bracken married artist Parker Edwards and in 1974 they moved to Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii, where she wrote her two latest books. Readers of America's most popular periodicals between 1942 and 1960 were delighted by such verses as well as by short pieces of humorous prose by P. Bracken. Bracken's humor here is gentle and bemused, though some of her inquiries are serious. Bracken has broadened the range of her topics and her tone in Argue, veering from tender lyricism to a surprisingly sharp satire of contemporary morality. Bracken recounts the joys and hazards her and her husband encountered as they journeyed in Europe, northern Africa, and Japan. The amusing story of Bracken's "first genuine kiss", administered by a shady character in a forbidden roadhouse, is explicit without sacrificing taste.
