ANATOMY OF ME

by Fannie Hurst ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 2, 1958

This is an extraordinarily interesting autobiography, and yet the ingredients that go into its making are not those one would necessarily expect from a successful novelist. Here, to be sure, are the years of adolescent struggling against the sheltered environment that she wanted to escape; here are the first years in New York of her dreams, where she seized any kind of job in order to stay on and keep writing the manuscripts that always came back; here are the early contacts- few of them in the field she chose to enter; here are- at long last- the words of encouragement, at rare intervals the acceptance- and then, suddenly- success. Once started, nothing seemed to halt this success, and she became America's highest paid short story writer, and a successful novelist as well. But this autobiography is only secondarily the story of her writing, her success, and the people in the top echelons that she knew. Rather is it the story of a woman exploring the roots of her own past, her own being, the factors that made her tick -- and above all, the elements that combined to create what was, for her, a perfect marriage. There is too her dominant passion- people, and what goes into their being, and what she can do for them. New York of the Twenties was her setting- not her metier -- and almost passed her by. She made her own background and life- in St. Louis, in New York, in those parts of the world she visited. The chief distinction of this autobiography is its value as a human document, of a woman who chanced to be a successful writer and whom one grows to know and like.

Pub Date: Oct. 2, 1958

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Publisher: Doubleday

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1, 1958

Categories: NONFICTION