Kathryn Hulme
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Kathryn Hulme was an American author and memoirist most noted for her novel The Nun's Story
. The book is often, mistakenly, understood to be semi-biographical.
book The Nun's Story was a best-selling novel which was made into an award-winning
1959 movie starring Audrey Hepburn
and Peter Finch
.
Another work, The Undiscovered Country: A Spiritual Adventure published by Little, Brown & Co. was a description of her years as a student of mystic G. I. Gurdjieff
. She is also the author of Wild Place, a description of her experiences as the UNRRA Director of the Polish Displaced Persons (DP) camp at Wildflecken, Germany, after WWII. This work won the Atlantic Non-Fiction Award in 1952.
It was at Wildflecken that Hulme met a Belgian nurse and former nun named Marie Louise Habets
, who became her lifelong companion. The Nun's Story is a slightly fictionalized biographical account of Habets' life as a nun.
No one questions that adults and children see the world differently. The former strive for understanding; the latter are captured by wonder—even in the aftermath of a natural disaster. In her 1938 fictionalized autobiography "We Lived as Children," San Francisco native Kathryn Hulme captured this difference, as her persona tells of watching San Francisco burn after the tragic 1906 earthquake.
The Nun's Story
The Nun's Story is the title of a 1956 novel by Kathryn Hulme. The book was a Book of the Month selection and reached #1 on the New York Times best-seller list....
. The book is often, mistakenly, understood to be semi-biographical.
Writing
Her 19561956 in literature
The year 1956 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Writing under the pseudonym of Emile Ajar, author Romain Gary becomes the only person ever to win the Prix Goncourt twice.*Iris Murdoch marries John Bayley....
book The Nun's Story was a best-selling novel which was made into an award-winning
Academy Awards
An Academy Award, also known as an Oscar, is an accolade bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers...
1959 movie starring Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn was a British actress and humanitarian. Although modest about her acting ability, Hepburn remains one of the world's most famous actresses of all time, remembered as a film and fashion icon of the twentieth century...
and Peter Finch
Peter Finch
Peter Finch was a British-born Australian actor. He is best remembered for his role as "crazed" television anchorman Howard Beale in the film Network, which earned him a posthumous Academy Award for Best Actor, his fifth Best Actor award from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and a...
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Another work, The Undiscovered Country: A Spiritual Adventure published by Little, Brown & Co. was a description of her years as a student of mystic G. I. Gurdjieff
G. I. Gurdjieff
George Ivanovich Gurdjieff according to Gurdjieff's principles and instructions, or the "Fourth Way."At one point he described his teaching as "esoteric Christianity."...
. She is also the author of Wild Place, a description of her experiences as the UNRRA Director of the Polish Displaced Persons (DP) camp at Wildflecken, Germany, after WWII. This work won the Atlantic Non-Fiction Award in 1952.
It was at Wildflecken that Hulme met a Belgian nurse and former nun named Marie Louise Habets
Marie Louise Habets
Marie Louise Habets was the Belgian nun and ex-nun fictionalised as Sister Luke in The Nun's Story, a bestselling 1956 book by American author Kathryn Hulme...
, who became her lifelong companion. The Nun's Story is a slightly fictionalized biographical account of Habets' life as a nun.
No one questions that adults and children see the world differently. The former strive for understanding; the latter are captured by wonder—even in the aftermath of a natural disaster. In her 1938 fictionalized autobiography "We Lived as Children," San Francisco native Kathryn Hulme captured this difference, as her persona tells of watching San Francisco burn after the tragic 1906 earthquake.
External links
- Kathryn Hulme Papers Digital collection at the Beinecke 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 from We Lived as Children at California Legacy ProjectCalifornia Legacy ProjectThe California Legacy Project began in 2000 as a project at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, CA and later partnered with Heyday Books in Berkeley, CA. The project uses a research team of SCU interns to create radio scripts for the radio anthology "Your California Legacy" on KAZU 90.3 FM,...
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