Broadway and film star Tallulah Bankhead, Brook’s second godmother, was in the circle. She was Dare’s goddaughter, lifelong friend and guardian during her final years.īrook was also a friend of Dare’s mother Edie, Dare’s brother Blaine and others in Dare’s circle in New York City. Brook Ashley tells Dare’s story as no one else can. Here too you can discover the real story behind the creation of Dare’s most celebrated title, The Lonely Doll.ĭare Wright And The Lonely Doll features more than four hundred of Dare’s own photographs and an array of other illustrations. Here you can browse her best-selling children’s books that have delighted millions of readers for more than sixty years, and that remain in print today. Follow the creative road she traveled from skilled artist to Broadway stage actress, cover page fashion model, professional photographer and acclaimed children’s book author and illustrator. Welcome to the official Dare Wright website where you can explore Dare’s story and see her amazing photographs.
"I think that the reason that the books worked so well for children is in a sense they were written by a person who was a child herself.THE DARE WRIGHT STORY Artist, Actress, Fashion Model, Photographer And Author Of The Lonely Doll Seriesġ914-2001 The Dare Wright Story – And Her Secrets – Shared As No One Else Can Wright, who died in 2001, "was working out many of the things that troubled her through these stories," Nathan says. that then came out in these children's books," the biographer says. "All of her stories turn on aspects of her own childhood, the fears of punishment and being abandoned. "I think that was the central trauma of Dare's life, losing both her father and her brother as a young child, and was something that stayed with her throughout her life," Nathan says. Her parents were divorced when Wright was three years old, resulting in her separation from her older brother. Wright's troubled childhood was reflected in the Lonely Doll books. Nathan discusses Dare's life with NPR's Steve Inskeep. Nathan has written The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll, a biography of the late author and photographer Dare Wright, who created a series of popular children's books that scores of girls grew up with from the 1950s to the 1980s. The children's title featured photos of a doll named Edith and stuffed bears who looked so authentic that Nathan believed Edith was a real girl.
When she was growing up, author Jean Nathan learned to read with a book called The Lonely Doll.
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