In 1957, a children\'s book called The Lonely Doll was published.
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
