This Is Your Life

[Jennifer Barth] at [Holt], noting that "every season there's room for some strange discovery," says she hopes this year's will be Jean Nathan's The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll, about children's author Dare Wright. "We are pitching it sui generis," Barth explains. "No one has heard of her, but they've heard of The Lonely Doll, a 1957 children's book that really captured people's imaginations. That's the touchpoint.