A Mother in History

Jean Stafford — 1992

In 1965, acclaimed novelist Stafford conducted three interviews with Marguerite Osward, the mother of Lee Harvey Oswald. What emerges is a classic of new journalism and an unforgettable and disturbing character study as darkly funny as anything concocted by William Faulkner or Flannery O'Connor. Bound to be compared to In Cold Blood.--Harper's.