BOOK NOTES

Autobiography of a Ukrainian American writer

"Avtobibliohrafia," by Marta Tarnawsky. Philadelphia: Mosty, 1998, 245 pages, $30, cloth.

"Avtobibliohrafia," the autobibliography of Marta Tarnawsky, a Ukrainian American poet, bibliographer, librarian and journalist, covers 50 years of publication in a wide variety of forums, from May 1946 to the end of 1996.

The book provides an extensively annotated list of 591 of Ms. Tarnawsky's literary and bibliographical works and of 241 reviews and other notices of her work, and is supplemented with an index of titles as well as a name and subject index. A special feature of the autobibliography is a concise year-by-year autobiographical chronicle with 30 documentary photographs. The book contains entries in Ukrainian, English and Russian, but the main text - the introduction, the annotations and the autobiographical chronicle - is in English.

This work gives a unique perspective on Ukrainian literary, social and cultural life and will be of interest to anyone interested in the history and culture, particularly literature, of Ukrainians in North America.

"Avtobibliohrafia" is available from MOSTY. Orders (with checks made out to MOSTY) should be sent to MOSTY, 6509 Lawnton Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19126-3745.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, August 26, 2001, No. 34, Vol. LXIX

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