Saturday's Child: A Memoir

Robin Morgan is known as a prize-winning author a political theorist and a founder of the contemporary womens movement. But these adult accomplishments eclipsed an earlier fame. Saturdays child has to work for a living and Morgan has--since the age of two. She was a tot model had her own radio show at age four and was a child star on television including on the popular series Mama. Unlike most child actors she emerged to reinvent a life filled with literary achievement and constructive politics.Here Morgan tells the whole story--the years as a child so famous she was named The Ideal American Girl her fight to become a serious writer marriage to a fiery bisexual poet motherhood lovers (male and female) and decades working on civil rights the radical underground and global feminism. This is the intensely personal behind-the-scenes story of her life.