Part 1 of Essay
Carolyn Chute has had many disappointments throughout her life, but now she is doing something about it. She connects with people similar to her through her novels and through her organizations. She also connects to people who have not felt her pain, because in her novels every word expresses one of her life’s hardships. ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... at the University of Maine. Carolyn’s courses seemed to help her writing because soon after she published her first fictional works for magazines. After her success with magazines she decided to write for herself. To date she has three published novels; Merry Men, Letourneau’s Used Auto Parts, and her critically acclaimed The Beans of Egypt, Maine. She was quoted as saying, “This book was involuntarily researched,” when interviewed by a reporter. Carolyn’s pain and humiliation, which she had suffered earli ....