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CAREER: Screenwriter and novelist. AWARDS, HONORS: Best adapted screenplay award nominations, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and Writers Guild of America, all 1987, all for Children of a Lesser God. WRITINGS:
Apr 26, 2002 · My mother killed herself on the first day of spring. So begins South Mountain Road, Hesper Anderson's elegant, wrenching memoir of death and deception, family secrets and memories, and of a young girl's trauma of self-discovery.
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- Hesper Anderson
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
Sep 4, 2015 · Hesper’s memoir recounts one year in her life: that following her mothers death, in which she digs into Mab’s past in search of that modern but timeless thing, closure.
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.
- Hesper Anderson
- April 26, 2002
- Paperback
Mar 8, 2000 · Hesper Anderson's poignant memoir opens with her mother's suicide in March 1953 and closes late the following year, when reading the contents of Mab Anderson's strongbox revealed to 20-year-old Hesper that her parents were never married.
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- Hesper Anderson
Mar 8, 2000 · After her mother's suicide, Hesper Anderson journeys through her past to determine how and why her life got to this point. It was a fairly tragic journey, with very few bright spots along the way.
