Melanie Rehak is the author of Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her. She is at work on a book about the pleasures and politics of feeding a family in the twenty-first century, to be published in 2009, and a book of poems called Autobiography: New York.
In the fall of 1958, the second book by a young British poet named Philip Larkin made it across the ocean and into the consciousness of American poetry.