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Kathryn Hulme(January 6, 1900 – August 25, 1981) was an American author and memoirist most noted for her novelThe Nun's Story.The book is often misunderstood to be semi-autobiographical.
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| Born | Kathryn Cavarly Hulme July 6, 1900 San Francisco,California |
| Died | August 25, 1981(aged 81) Lihue,Kauai,Hawaii |
| Spouse | Leonard D. Geldert (1925–1928) |
Writing
editHer1956 bookThe Nun's Storywas a best-selling novel which was made into anaward-winning1959 movie starringAudrey HepburnandPeter Finch.
Another work,The Undiscovered Country: A Spiritual Adventurepublished by Little, Brown & Co. was a description of her years as a student of mysticG. I. Gurdjieffand her eventual conversion to Catholicism. Hulme studied with Gurdjieff as part of a group of eight women known as "The Rope," which included:Solita Solano,Kathryn Hulme, Alice Rohrer, Elizabeth Gordon,Louise Davidson,Georgette Leblanc,Margaret Caroline AndersonandJane Heap[1]
She is also the author ofThe Wild Place,a vivid description of her experiences as theUNRRADirector of the PolishDisplaced Persons campatWildflecken,Germany, after World War II. This work won theAtlantic Non-Fiction Awardin 1952.[2]
It was at Wildflecken that Hulme met a Belgian nurse and former nunMarie Louise Habets,who became her lifelong companion.The Nun's Storyis a slightly fictionalized biographical account of Habets' life as a nun.
In her 1938 fictionalized autobiographyWe Lived as Children,Hulme describes a child's perspective of San Francisco afterthe 1906 earthquake.
Bibliography
edit- Arab Interlude,Macrae Smith Company (Philadelphia), 1930
- Desert Night,The Macauley Company (New York), 1932
- We lived as children,A.A. Knopf (New York, London), 1938 (LCCN: 38027542, ASIN: B000GBZZIU)
- The Wild Place,(Atlantic Prize for Nonfiction (1952), Brown Little, 1953, (ISBN9787100102407)
- The Nun's Story,Pocket Books, 1958 (ASIN: B000CBFXYA)
- The Undiscovered Country: A Spiritual Adventure,Little, Brown & Co. (Boston USA/Toronto CA), 1967; reprinted (Natural Bridge Editions: Lexington MA, 1997) (ISBN1-891218-03-4)
- Look A Lion In the Eye: On Safari Through Africa,Little, Brown & Co. First edition (1974) (ISBN0316381403)
- Annie's Captain,Little, Brown and Company (Boston, Toronto), 1961
See also
editReferences
edit- ^The RopeArchived2006-06-16 at theWayback Machinegurdjieff-legacy.org.
- ^Campbell, Debra (Winter 2008)."[About the Cover]: The Nun's Story: Another Look at the Postwar Religious Revival".American Catholic Studies.119(4): 103–108.JSTOR44195197.Retrieved10 February2023.
External links
edit- Kathryn Hulme PapersDigital collection at theBeinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University
- Kathryn Hulme Papers,Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
- "Too Much to Watch,"short radio segment fromWe Lived as ChildrenatCalifornia Legacy Project.