Angel in the Forest appeared in 1945 and was well received, winning Guggenheim and Newberry Library awards. She relocated to New Harmony and spent seven years there, beginning work on Angel in the Forest, a study of utopian concepts and communities, at the same time producing Moderate Fable (1944), which won the poetry prize from the National Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1943, she moved to New York, where she became known for her works Moderate Fable (1944) and Angel in the Forest (1945). In that same year, she visited the commune of New Harmony, Indiana, where her mother and stepfather resided.Īfter her MA, she taught at an Indianapolis high school and at the University of Iowa. Young's first book of poetry, Prismatic Ground, was published in 1937, while she was teaching English at Shortridge High School in Indianapolis. In New York she held a contract lectureship in English literature during the 1960s at Fordham University. She briefly taught at Shortridge High School before embarking on a distinguished literary career. in philosophy and English from the University of Iowa, where she taught at the prestigious Iowa Writers' Workshop. Drug-based flights of fantasy were to make their way into the novel. Vincent Millay, Weissenbach was sometimes known as 'the opium lady of Hyde Park' and she became the inspiration for the Opium Lady in Young's Miss MacIntosh, My Darling.

While attending the University of Chicago, Young had a part-time position reading Shakespeare to Minna K. She wrote her master's thesis on Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit by John Lyly (1578). In 1936, she earned her MA in Elizabethan and Jacobean Literature. She also attended the University of Iowa. She then attended the University of Chicago, auditing Thornton Wilder's writing class at his invitation. Young studied at Butler University in Indianapolis, receiving a BA in French and English. Her grandmother nurtured Young's love of literature. Young's parents separated when she was very young, and she and her sister, Naomi, were brought up by their maternal grandmother, Marguerite Herron Knight, who was convinced the child Marguerite was the reincarnation of her dead cousin, Little Harry. Through her father, Chester Ellis Young, she was a collateral descendant of Brigham Young, and by her mother, Fay Herron Knight, she was a direct descendant of John Knox.

Indianapolis Street Car Strike of 1913, during Marguerite Young's childhood

Miss macintosh my darling