Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright

Title: Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright
Author: Jean Nathan
ISBN: 9780312424923
Publisher: Picador
Published: 2005
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 320
Publisher Description:

In 1957, a children's book called The Lonely Doll was published. With its pink-and-white-checked cover and photographs featuring a wide-eyed doll, it captured the imaginations of young girls and made the author, Dare Wright, a household name. Close to forty years after its publication, the book was out of print but not forgotten. When the cover image inexplicably came to journalist Jean Nathan one afternoon, she went in search of the book--and ultimately its author. Nathan found Dare Wright living out her last days in a decrepit public hospital in Queens, New York. Over the next five years, Nathan pieced together Dare Wright's bizarre life of glamour and painful isolation to create this mesmerizing biography of a woman who struggled to escape the imprisonment of her childhood through her art.