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Nancy Hale

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8 picks · 1934–1968

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The World, the Flesh, and the Devil
fiction ·

The writer reminisces about her artist parents, both of whom are dead. She recalls her worldly looking mother, who was easily scandalized, but never turned…

A Curious Lapse
fiction ·

Vera Major, editor of the fashion magazine "Lady", went down to a small Virginia town to visit her old friend & onetime employer, Alison Gray. Alison had …

Ever Let The Fancy
fiction ·

When the writer was a child in Boston, her father would come upstairs after she was in bed for the night and tell stories about his activities. These fell …

The Pattern of Perfection
fiction ·

Mrs. Carrington's son, Will, daughter-in-law Barbara, and small grandson, Billy, visit her for Christmas at her beautiful Virginia home, Melrose. A …

The Bubble
fiction ·

When the writer was 18 and about to have a baby, she left her husband in N.Y. and went to her mother-in-law's home in Washington, D.C. When the baby …

Six-Fifteen
fiction ·

Tells about a little girl's unhappiness in her mother's absence, her distaste for her grandmother, her adoration of her father, and her sense that …

That Summer
fiction ·

The year after the writer graduated from school she came out. Nothing happened to her in that summer in between. But somehow she remembers it so vividly, …

PERFECT 36
a reporter at large ·

REPORTER AT LARGE about John Powers Agency, a clearing house for professional models - male and female. John Powers Book is not for sale anywhere, it put …