Jean Nathan
Autor(a) de The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright
Obras por Jean Nathan
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Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1946
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Locais de residência
- New York, New York, USA
- Educação
- Williams College
Columbia University (School of Journalism)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 5
- Membros
- 343
- Popularidade
- #69,543
- Avaliação
- 4.1
- Críticas
- 9
- ISBN
- 6
Nathan’s deep look into Dare Wright’s life shines a lot of light on The Lonely Doll for those of us who absolutely need to wring out every drop of information when a charming picture book catches our eye. The biography itself is a great read, and it’s going to be hard to restrain myself from discussing the entire book, but I think I can rein myself in and stick to just the information that answers the whys asked of The Lonely Doll and Dare Wright. Maybe.
Bare bones background. Dare Wright was born in 1914 to portrait artist Edith Stevenson and failed actor/writer/farmer Ivan Leonard Wright. Married in 1910, they also had a son named Blaine in 1912, and the marriage dissolved in 1917 when Ivan abandoned Edith and moved to New York. Their marriage had been marred by financial difficulties that caused them to continually move around, and Edith, also called Edie, became so estranged from her family during this time that she was forced to send Blaine to stay with his paternal grandmother, who in turn sent him to live with his father. When the divorce was final, Edie sent word to Ivan that she never wanted to see or hear from him or Blaine ever again, and she never again married or even had a serious romantic relationship. Dare tracked her brother down 25 years later, but her father had died before she finally reconnected with Blaine.
Dare had several courtships in her life, and was even engaged to marry a pilot when he returned from duty in WWII. The pilot was one of Blaine’s best friends, and the union seemed a good idea but Dare was uninterested in sexual intimacy. The pilot had an affair with a married woman and when Dare found out she ended the engagement. Her education was spotty at best but she was intelligent, very artistic like her mother, and capable of learning all sorts of useful skills. She attempted to become a professional model and actress but lacked the drive to pull it off and The Lonely Doll was her attempt to establish herself as a writer and photographer. Though her books were and still are quite successful, Dare’s personal life was far less so. She never had a sexual relationship, remained more or less with her mother in some manner until Edie died, and descended into alcoholism and died after several years as a severe invalid, requiring constant hospitalization.
This is a part of a much longer discussion of this book on Odd Things Considered. If you would like to read the entire thing, click here: https://www.oddthingsconsidered.com/oddtober-2020-the-secret-life-of-the-lonely-...… (mais)