Now in November (Pulitzer Prize for 1935)

190 pp. Full brown leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrated by Joseph Isom. Johnson was just 24 years old when she published Now in November. The novel is narrated by the middle Haldmarne daughter, Marget, looking back at a grueling decade on the family farm. In style it has been compared to the works of Emily Bronte and Marilynne Robinson.