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Apr 26, 2002 · Hesper Anderson vividly reconstructs her childhood memories for the reader with clarity and exquisite detail. Her story is one of a remarkable, sensitive girl as she traverses her precarious journey of childhood. The daughter of playwright Maxwell Anderson, Hesper was surrounded by the rich and famous.
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Hesper Anderson was born on 2 August 1934 in New York City, New York, USA. Hesper was a writer, known for Children of a Lesser God (1986), Touched by Love (1980) and The Deliberate Stranger (1986). Hesper was married to Earle H Levenstein.
- Writer
- August 2, 1934
- Hesper Anderson
- October 17, 2018
MacDougal Street Ghosts, Anderson's second book, is a novel about Callie Hyde Epstein, a screenwriter living in Los Angeles, California. Now fifty-something, Callie is drawn back into memories of her young adulthood when, while packing for a move to northern California, she finds some of her family's home movies from the late 1960s. Callie ...
Sep 4, 2015 · “My mother killed herself on the first day of spring.” That’s the first line of Hesper Anderson’s memoir, South Mountain Road: A Daughter’s Journey of Discovery. Please persevere. And don’t be put off by the subtitle—even if the squishy word “journey” gives you hives, the book won’t. I promise. This is a straightforward recommendation—a prolonged staff pick, […]
When Hesper Anderson, the daughter of famed Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Maxwell Anderson (What Price Glory?, Winterset, Key Largo, The Bad Seed), got the phone call informing her that her mother, the beautiful, enigmatic Mab, had committed suicide, she knew that her world would be forever changed. A woman of baffling remoteness and ...
- Hesper Anderson
- April 26, 2002
- Paperback
Mar 8, 2000 · Hesper Anderson skillfully conveys the comfortable yet bohemian atmosphere on South Mountain Road and its impact on her. Vivid character sketches include the warm, down-to-earth Lenya and the author's loving but judgmental father, but the strongest portrait is of Hesper herself, groping toward maturity in difficult circumstances. --Wendy Smith
- Hardcover
- Hesper Anderson
Hesper Anderson discusses life on South Mountain Road in New City, N.Y. during the 1940's, specifically the friendship between the Weills and Andersons. She goes on to speak of Lenya's life after Weill's death--the rebirth of her theater career, her marriage to George Davis, and her last years.
