Annabelle davis goff biography sample
Annabel Davis-Goff is a novelist, essayist, social justice advocate, and a driving force behind Bennington College's Incarceration in America and Prison..
was born in the South of Ireland in 1942.
Annabel Davis-Goff on growing up in Ireland in the s: “There was no future.
My parents belonged to the Anglo-Irish generation that had been brought up during English rule, and had lived through the Anglo-Irish War, the Civil War, the Irish Free State and, by the time I was born, were adapting to belonging to the Republic of Ireland.
This is the period I wrote about in Walled Gardens, a family memoir that is also an account of a time and a place. Walled Gardens was generously reviewed in the US, and in the British Isles, where it is still in print.
The book was, for some time, on the Irish Best Seller List.
I left Ireland when I was seventeen – it was not the land of opportunity it now is – and worked in England as a secretary, in television, and eventually in the briefly flourishing film industry of the 1960s.
When the movie boom ended, I moved to California, where I lived for over a year, and then married and moved to Connecticut. I worked briefly in American movies – first as a script super