And So Did I
Published on 30. September 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-1-915812-74-2 (ISBN)
Description
A book decades ahead of its time, And So Did I established a new model for the memoir, one built from moments of intense observation, candid self-reflection, courageous honesty, and irrepressible humor. It opens with the comedy of a man being struck by an automobile and walking away unscathed and cascades through a year's worth of incidents and encounters that reveal Whitaker's resilient spirit and fine-honed understanding of people, their quirks, weaknesses, and charms.
Reviews / Votes
"It is nothing if not a work of art. The excellence of And So Did I resides in its spontaneity, its distinguished and vivid imaginativeness, its delicious sureness in detail, its intimacy, its atmosphere." * The Listener * "It is delightful. Not an autobiography, not quite a journal, it combines in a most original way the qualities of both." * New Statesman * "A sane and lovely book." * The Evening Standard *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Norwich
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
217 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-915812-74-2 (9781915812742)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Born in Bradford in 1895, Malachi Whitaker grew up among books, the daughter of a bookbinder. She began writing at an early age and by the mid-1930s was recognized as one of the finest short story writers of her time, known as "the Bradford Chekhov." And So Did I, an impressionistic memoir of a year in the late 1930s, was her last published book. For personal and critical reasons, she wrote nothing more for publication from then until her death in 1975. Her short stories have since been reissued by Carcanet and Persephone and included in dozens of anthologies.
Content
Born in Bradford in 1895, Malachi Whitaker grew up among books, the daughter of a bookbinder. She began writing at an early age and by the mid-1930s was recognized as one of the finest short story writers of her time, known as "the Bradford Chekhov." And So Did I, an impressionistic memoir of a year in the late 1930s, was her last published book. For personal and critical reasons, she wrote nothing more for publication from then until her death in 1975. Her short stories have since been reissued by Carcanet and Persephone and included in dozens of anthologies.