Kitchen privileges : a memoir

Label

Kitchen privileges : a memoir

Title remainder

a memoir

Statement of responsibility

Mary Higgins Clark

Creator

• Clark, Mary Higgins

Subject

• Clark, Mary Higgins -- Childhood and youth
• Clark, Mary Higgins -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) | New York
• Bronx (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
• Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography
• Clark, Mary Higgins -- Homes and haunts -- New York City
• Bronx (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs
• Bronx (New York, N.Y.) -- Biography
• Depressions -- 1929 -- United States

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

In a memoir of growing up in the Bronx during the Depression, the author recalls her father's death in 1939, her family's financial woes, and her mother's creation of a rooming house, bringing in tenants who would change their lives

Subject

• Intellectual life -- Bronx, New York City -- 20th century
• Bronx, New York City -- Social life and customs
• Arts and Entertainment -- Writing and Publishing
• Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
• Adult books for young adults
• Family and Relationships -- Growing Up
• Depressions -- 1929-1941
• Life stories -- Relationships | Growing up
• Autobiographies and memoirs
• New York City -- Social life and customs

Genre

• Family and Relationships
• Autobiographies and memoirs
• Biography
• Adult books for young adults
• Arts and Entertainment
• Life stories

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 813/.54
• B

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3553.L287

LC item number

Z64 2002

Literary form

non fiction

Target audience

adult