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— County Library J by Kathleen Duffy

The American Library Association announced the 1984 Notable Book List. The books on list were selected for their significant contribution to the expansion of knowledge or for the plea-" sure they can provide to readers. The criteria included wide appeal and literary merit. The list was complied for the use of the general reader and for librarians who work with adult readers. Thirtytwo of the 42 books selected for inclusion on this Notables list are already waiting on the shelves of the Cape May County Library for you. EUDORA Welly's biography, One Writer's Beginning. is real treat to everyone who loves good writing and is interested in the seeds of creativity. She was born in 1908 in Jackson, Miss., where Eudora Welty still lives in her father's house. In a "continuous thread of revelation" she sketches her autobiography and tells us how her family and her surroundings contributed to the shaping not only of her personally but of her writing. A biography of photographer Diane A r bus by Patricia Bosworth is also listed on the notables list. Diane Arbus's photographs of dwarf, twins, transvestites and freaks hinted at a complex mind obsessed with visions." THIS compassionate and insightful biography is a revelation of an artist of great talents — an artist who needed to scrutinize the perverse the alienated, the strange, not only to understand their lives, but in order to express 'the mystery of existence' however unbearable, an artist whose legacy attests not only an extraordinary vision but the equally extraordinary woman behind it. Franz Kafka is considered the preeminent writer and consciousness of this century. In The Nightmare of Reason. Ernst Pawel has captured what is essential in Kafka and "has described, evenly and dispassionately the interplay of work and life". PAWEL removes the

myths and distortions that have surrounded Kafka and brings brilliant evocation of a milieu. The Prague of affluent Germanized Jewry, the intellectual ferment of • Central Europe before the First World War and brilliant doomed Austria — Hungary itself and its collapse are woven into this remarkable biography that should stand as the definite modern study of a fascinating writer. Why would a grwon man chase hornets with a thermometer. paint whirligig beetles bright red or track elephants through the night to fill trash bags with their prodigious droppings? Some might say to advance science. Bernd Heinrich says — because it's fun. ALREADY ONE of the world's foremost physiological ecologists with In A Patch Of Fireweed. he will undoubtedly become one of our foremost writers of popular science. Part autobiography, part case study in the ways of field biology, this book is an endlessly fascinating account of a scientist's life and work. For the reader, it is simply a delight, a rare chance to share the perceptions of an unusual mind fully in tune with the inner working of nature. CONSIDERED one of the mysteries of American literature, Walt Whitman's biography by Paul Zewig concentrates of the transforming years from political journalist to the appearance of Leaves of Grass — the most original book of poems ever written in America. Look for Walt Whitman; the Making of the Poet, and indulge yourself. The last biography on the list is With A Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. The author, Mary Catherine Bateson, looks back to an extra-ordinary childhood as she describes worlds found and created for her by a mother and father who translated thier passionate interests into images a child could share. This deeply human, illuminating portrait is a candid and touching memoir of a unique family

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