Join us as Denmark Historical Society, Public Library and Arts Center Collaborative presents the Authors Series and an afternoon with author Robin Wood and The Field House.

The Field House:  A Writer’s Life Lost and Found on an Island in Maine is a biography memoir hybrid that recounts the life of Rachel Field, a renowned author, poet, and playwright from the 1920s to the 1940s. Field’s once-cherished summer home became the property of writer Robin Clifford Wood and her husband in the 1990s. Wood soon fell under the spell of island, house, and Field herself, whose presence whispered from the dusty corners and creaking floorboards. It took Wood ten years to uncover the mysteries surrounding Field’s life, ten years that transformed her own life and career.

2021 READERS’ FAVORITE GOLD MEDAL AWARD WINNER!!
 https://readersfavorite.com/book-review/the-field-house

Praise for The Field House:
” [Wood’s] passionate prose and carefully curated primary sources will certainly convince readers that Field is not a writer to overlook.
An eloquent, detailed tribute to a less well-known but inspiring author.”
-Kirkus Reviews

“I just finished this lovely book and feel richer for it. Meticulously researched and deeply felt, THE FIELD HOUSE is a compelling hybrid of biography and memoir. An exploration of the life and legacy of novelist-poet Rachel Field, it is interwoven with personal reflections that reveal the influence of Field’s work ethic and passion on the biographer’s life. This book is also a meditation on the nature of creativity and a love letter to a house on Sutton Island in Maine once owned by Field and now by Wood. For both writers, the house became a touchstone and a haven, a place to reflect and rejuvenate and create.”
– #1 New York Times bestselling author Christina Baker Kline, author of Orphan Train, The Exiles, and A Piece of the World.
​Check out Robin’s interview with Christina Baker Kline here

Authors Series is funded by an anonymous Angel and guest support from ticket sales