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THE BABY ON THE FIRE ESCAPE - JULIE PHILLIPS GE...

What does it mean to create  not in a room of one's own but in a domestic space? Do children
and genius rule each other out? In The Baby on the Fire Escape  award-winning biographer Julie
Phillips traverses the shifting terrain where motherhood and creativity converge. With fierce
empathy and vivid prose  Phillips evokes the intimate struggles of brilliant artists and
writers  including Doris Lessing  who had to choose between her motherhood and herself  Ursula
K. Le Guin  who found productive stability in family life  Audre Lorde  whose queer 
polyamorous union allowed her to raise children on her own terms and Alice Neel  who once  to
finish a painting  was said to have left her baby on the fire escape of her New York apartment.
A meditation on maternal identity and artistic greatness  The Baby on the Fire Escape
illuminates some of the most pressing conflicts in contemporary women's lives.

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