ext_61576 ([identity profile] shakatany.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] shakatany 2007-12-13 07:47 pm (UTC)

My favorite autobiography is "We Shook the Family Tree" by Hildegarde Dolson - she wasn't very famous but boy do I find it funny and it always cheers me up.

I also loved the books by Emily Kimbrough and Cornelia Otis Skinner (together or seperately) like "Our Hearts were Young and Gay" which has a scene were Cornelia, one of these two sheltered girls, comments on why a guy at a party was wearing make-up and thinks he must've come right from the theater and her father, the actor Otis Skinner, sputters and faintly agrees. I first read these books when I was very young and didn't quite understand the humor it the scene until I was much older *g*

Shakatany

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