Years after Dare Wright\'s beloved 1957 book The Lonely Doll was published, journalist Jean Nathan found Wright living out her last days in a decrepit public hospital in Queens.
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..
Nathan found Dare Wright living out her last days in a decrepit public hospital in Queens, New York.
When the cover image inexplicably came to journalist Jean Nathan one afternoon, she went in Search of the book--and ultimately its author.
Close to forty years after its publication, the book was out of print but not forgotten.
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.
In 1957, a children\'s book called The Lonely Doll was published.
Nathan delivers this mesmerizing biography of a woman who struggled to escape the imprisonment of her childhood through her art.
Years after Dare Wright\'s beloved 1957 book The Lonely Doll was published, journalist Jean Nathan found Wright living out her last days in a decrepit public hospital in Queens
