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Encouraged by her mother Edie, Dare learned to sketch, paint, write, and sew.
Dare Wright And The Lonely Doll reveals the true story of a complicated angel.

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Almost every children’s picture book is illustrated through just that, pictures, but Wright took things a step further: The Lonely Doll and its ensuing nine sequels were all illustrated through real-life, black-and-white photographs entirely staged and taken by Wright herself. This subsequently gave Wright’s books a distinct and memorable edge over other children’s books of the era, allowing it to become something of a beloved cult classic in the hearts of children, mostly female, who grew up consuming Wright’s work. And since absence makes both the heart and nostalgia grow fonder, the fact that The Lonely Doll went out of print by the 1990s made the search for its story all the more important to its baby boomer fans.

Dare Wright was many things throughout her life: an actress, model, photographer, writer, and above all an artist. But like the best of them, her inner life was plagued with demons, including a notoriously overbearing mother who all but physically prevented her daughter from aging into an adult. So grab your favorite teddy bear and light your best old book-s

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Dare Wright

Children's author, model, and photographer

Dare Wright (December 3, 1914 – January 25, 2001) was a Canadian–Americanchildren's author, model, and photographer. She is best known for her 1957 children's book, The Lonely Doll.

Early life

Wright was born in the Thornhill section of Vaughan, Ontario, Canada, but spent her childhood in the United States, growing up in Cleveland, Ohio. Her parents divorced when she was young, and she was raised by her mother, the portrait artist Edith Stevenson Wright, while her brother, Blaine, went to live with his father, Ivan Wright, a theater critic in New York City. The siblings did not meet again until Dare moved to New York City in her twenties. Wright spent her formative years in Cleveland Heights.

Wright graduated from Laurel School in Shaker Heights in 1933 at the top of her class, and relocated to New York to attend the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. In 1935, she was cast in a small role as a maid in a stage production of Pride and Prejudice, which she performed in Washington, D.C. and on Broadway.

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The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll
Yesterday, browsing at the St. Marks Bookstore, I picked up a copy of Jean Nathan’s The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright, a biography of Dare Wright, the author of The Lonely Doll, a children’s book published originally in 1957 and currently in print. I had had a copy which I had given away & it seemed fortuitous to pick up another copy, hardbound, to replace it.
I was not aware of Dare Wright or her numerous children’s books, illustrated with her photographs until well into my adulthood. My good friend K. was the first to mention The Lonely Doll to me, as it had been a beacon for her in her childhood. & then subsequently others I knew mentioned this as well.
I’ve been rereading The Lonely Doll & other books by Dare Wright. I am struck by how Edith, the lonely doll of the title, encounters & addresses serious issues: isolation, separation, doubt. The appearance of Mr. & Little Bear is a kind of wish fulfillment & also a plateau in which Edith’s sensitivities