Sue Saffle

SUE SAFFLE earned degrees in English from the University of Utah ('75) and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University ('82). A free-lance journalist as well as instructor of English at Virginia Tech, she has lived and taught in Germany, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Finland. She is currently collaborating with Mary Bradford and Susan Howe on a biography of her aunt, novelist Virginia Sorensen Waugh.

Eggertsen Men: Male Family Influences in Virginia Sorensen’s Kingdom Come and the Evening and the Morning

Articles/Essays – Volume 35, No. 1

Much has been written about the heroines in Virginia Sorensen’s adult fiction, their real-life counterparts, and inspirations. By contrast, relatively little attention has been given to her male characters and the family figures on whom many were based. As a self-proclaimed family chronicler, Sorensen found in her male forbears, indeed all members of the Eggertsen family, a significant source of information and ideas for her fiction.