2011 Presenters

Maisie Houghton

Maisie Houghton was born in New York City, grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and graduated from Radcliffe College in 1962. Her debut book is the memoir Pitch Uncertain, which portrays an era and genteel culture as much as it deciphers a marriage. It is also the intimate recollection of a girl—a middle child—struggling to find both her place in the world and her own voice in the supposed quiet of the 1950s. Pitch Uncertain was named by Vogue.com as one of the top memoirs to read this year and has also received praise from the New York Review of Books, which called it "beautifully written" and "penetrating."

LINKS:

Review of Pitch Uncertain from The New York Review of Books

Vogue best memoirs roundup