A Mother in History
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 First edition | |
| Author | Jean Stafford |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Farrar Straus & Giroux |
Publication date | 1966 |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | 121 |
| ISBN | 978-0374213725 |
A Mother in History is an essay by Jean Stafford published in 1966 by Farrar Straus & Giroux.[1]
In her only non-fiction book, Stafford adapted the methods of the New Journalism to present a series of interviews with Marguerite Oswald, mother of Lee Harvey Oswald, in the aftermath of the John F. Kennedy assassination.[2]
The title of the piece is derived from Marguerite Oswald’s characterization of herself as “a mother in history.”[3]
The article was initially commissioned by McCall’s in 1965 to assemble a series of interviews with Marguerite Oswald, mother of Lee Harvey Oswald, the latter widely regarded at the time as the lone assassin in the murder of US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy an expansion of a commissioned 1965 McCall's article based on a three-day interview with Marguerite Oswald.”