Joyce Fitzgerald’s Scrapbook

           
Like Doris Ashley, Joyce Fitzgerald (her name is written in pencil inside the front cover) likely kept this poetry scrapbook as a young woman, in the early years of World War II.  Like Dottie’s scrapbook, Fitzgerald’s collection also includes work by both popular and literary writers.  Unlike Dottie, however, Fitzgerald appears to have had a more central agenda, featuring several poems by young women writers like herself—including a poem written by a young Carolyn Kizer (then in high school), who would grow up to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1985.

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