Show Spiritual Tumult Theme of Novel Dorothy Coursen whose first novel noel Fire of Spring will be pun pun- in the near future by Henry Holt Co is a native ot of Michigan who came with her family early to New York state She later moved to California where she studied two years ears in the state university and returned to New York to enter Columbia After Arter a term there she married During the oar ar she worked in an ammunition plant Later she sold a juvenile enc encyclopedia clo In the Irish section of Boston Bos- Bos ton taught school In New Jersey and lived U the life of a factory workers worker's wife These varied experiences experiences ex- ex were followed by a a. start at writing and Fire of Spring the second novel she has written was accepted by her publishers after attel at- at tel ter the mot most enthusiastic reports from several readers Miss Coursen is now 27 Years ears old and lives in an eastern New York county with her two small sons Fire of Spring is a stream of consciousness novel noel chiefly concerned with the Inner tumult of a young oung girls girl's adolescence |