The Dreaming Game A Portrait of a Passionate Life

by Kunhardt, Philip B.

• ISBN13: 9781594481406
• ISBN10: 1594481407
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-10-04
• Publisher: Riverhead Trade

Summary

Best known as the author of the wildly innovative runaway bestseller, Pat the Bunny, Dorothy Kunhardt was not only a successful children's writer, but also a respected Lincoln scholar and biographer, and an inveterate chronicler of life. Until she died in 1979, she recorded everything about herself-her early loves, her feelings about marriage, family, career, grief, and ultimately the degeneration that age can bring to the mind and spirit. Using these records and letters, and his own research and memories, Dorothy's son gives readers a deeply moving account of a unique, passionate, and creative life well spent.

Author Biography

Philip B. Kunhardt, Jr., a former managing editor of Life magazine, is the author of numerous books, including the Christopher Award-winning memoir My Father's House and A New Birth of Freedom: Lincoln at Gettysburg, winner of the Barondess/Lincoln Award. He is also the co-author, with his mother, of Twenty Days, the definitive account of Lincoln's assassination and its aftermath, and co-author, with his sons, of The American President, Lincoln: An Illustrated Biography, and P. T. Barnum: America's Greatest Showman.