Edith Macefield was a novelist

Ballard's most famous holdout, the late Edith Macefield, is leaving behind more than just her house as a legacy. A story on Macefield in yesterday's New York Times reveals the 86-year-old lady, who made national headlines for refusing to sell her house to developers, had written a novel under the pen name Domilini. "It is unclear whether anyone other than its author has ever read Where Yesterday Began," writes Bill Yardley. "It is set against the backdrop of post-World War I Europe...The book is 1,138 pages long, not counting the musical references, from Scottish folk songs to a 1915 work by the English composer Albert W. Ketelbey, and a 16-page glossary of the French, German and Italian phrases sprinkled throughout." ( Via The Daily Weekly)