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Helen macdonald hawk6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() “I started to get this strong sense that he was haunting me – not in a kind of white-sheet way, but the physical archives were so moving and disturbing,” she says. White archives at the University of Texas’ Harry Ransom Center, where she developed an even closer kinship with the troubled writer, who is best known for his Arthurian saga The Once and Future King. In that story of White’s escape from society with a goshawk, Macdonald saw a reflection of herself. Macdonald read White’s 1951 book The Goshawk as a hawk-obsessed child, and although she had hated it then, she found herself drawn to it in her early days of training Mabel. Lthough labeled a memoir, H Is for Hawk is not easily categorized, as it also contains lengthy sections of detailed, sometimes academic, nature writing and biographical sections that tell the story of 20th-century British author T. In bereavement, she explains, mourners often either remember everything with pristine clarity, or it’s all a blur and they remember nothing. ![]()
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