“In a word, we are our past. We do not cling to it, it clings to us." In this book, published the year of her death 1932, Grace King describes her life as a New Orleans independent literary icon of her time. She lived through wars, was friends with Mark Twain, Thomas Nelson Page, and Pearl Rivers among many other figures of that turn of the century era. A snapshot of New Orleans culture. Book has been taped with clear tape somewhere along the years.