
Nathan found Dare Wright living out her last days in a decrepit New York City public hospital." "Piecing together interviews and documents, sifting through the thousands of photographs Wright had taken, Nathan uncovered a glamorous life. When the cover image unaccountably surfaced in journalist Jean Nathan's consciousness one afternoon, she went in search of the book - and ultimately its author. With its distinctive pink-and-white checked cover and black-and-white photographs featuring a wide-eyed doll named Edith, it quickly captured the hearts of young girls all over the country and made the author, Dare Wright, a household name." "Forty years after its publication, the book was out of print but not forgotten. "In 1957, a children's book called The Lonely Doll was published.
