Mosaic of Fire examines the personal and artistic interactions of four innovative American modernist women writers-Lola Ridge, Evelyn Scott, Charlotte Wilder, and Kay Boyle-all active in the Greenwich Village cultural milieu of the first half of the twentieth century. Caroline Maun traces the mutually constructive, mentoring relationships through which these writers fostered each other's artistic endeavors and highlights the ways in which their lives and works illustrate issues common to women writers of the modernist era. The feminist vision of poet-activist and editor Lola Ridge led her to...