The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright Saturday, August 1 2009.

• 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.

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright Friday, July 24 2009.

• Added a contributor: Jean Nathan: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright Thursday, July 16 2009.

• The sole autobiographical record Dare Wright left behind is concealed in her photographs and in the nineteen books she wrote and illustrated for children.