Incognito Street : How Travel Made Me a Writer

by Barbara Sjoholm

Incognito Street is an evocative look at an adventurous, curious young expatriate and the forces that would shape her eventual career as a writer, translator, and publisher.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Seal Press (October 28, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580051723

Book Description

Barbara Sjoholm arrived in London in the winter of 1970 at the age of twenty. Like countless young Americans in that tumultuous time, she wanted to leave a country at war and explore Europe. Over the next three years, she lived in Barcelona, hitchhiked around Spain, and studied at the University of Granada, finding odd jobs to make ends meet. Set on becoming a writer, she read everything from Colette to Dickens to Borges, changing her style and her subject every few weeks, and gradually found her voice.

Incognito Street is the story of a young woman's search for artistic, political, and sexual identity while digesting the changing world around her. As she sheds the ghosts of her childhood, we come to know her quiet yet adventurous spirit. In moments that are tender, funny, bewildering, and suspenseful, we see an evocative look at Europe through the blossoming writer’s maturing eyes.

About the Author

Barbara Sjoholm is a writer of memoir, personal essays and travel narratives. Before changing her name in 2001, she published a number of books of fiction, mystery and non-fiction as Barbara Wilson.