![]() ![]() 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. ![]()
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