Author: Katherine Hupfel
Title: Desert Homestead [Unpublished Manuscript]
Description: Hardcover. AN ARIZONA WOMAN'S UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT NOVEL OF HER LIFE AS AN IMMIGRANT. Original typewritten manuscript. 389p, bound in an orange cloth binder. With the stamp of Eric S. Pinker And Adrienne Morrison Inc. Literary agency. The novel tells the story of a New Jersey family who come to Arizona to start a new life in a harsh and unfamiliar desert country. The main character is Madge, the strong wife and mother who keeps the family going through various tragedies. There's no specific date in which the plot is set but it's clearly in the early 20th century. Katherine Hupfel (1897-1971) was the Society Editor of the Coolidge Examiner, an Arizona newspaper in Coolidge, a small city in the Sonora Desert, in the 1940s and 1950s. She published a few short stories in the 1930s. She was living in Los Angeles by 1960 and as the manuscript gives her an LA address, it presumably dates to the 1960s. The novel itself is well-written and is perhaps best described as an Arizona version of the early work of Willa Cather. Little is known about Hupfel and it's unknown to what extent the novel is autobiographical other than being sent in the region where she lived. An interesting example of early Arizona fiction by a woman author. Very good .

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