Wright was born Canadian in Vaughn, Ontario on Decemto Ivan Wright, Edith “Edie” Stevenson, and older brother Blaine. Little Edie and Big Edie: Growing Up With Mommie Dearest And the biographer’s claim that this was the first comprehensive look into Wright’s life was not unfounded - fiercely private, she gave very few interviews over the course of her career, and next to nothing was publicly known about her later years and death until The Secret Life’s publication in 2004. But something about this biography’s promise to tell the story, for the first time in full, of the author of a once-famed children’s book from the 1950s who fell out of the limelight in later life spoke to me.
I had, at this point, never heard of Dare Wright or The Lonely Doll, named “ the creepiest children’s book” of all-time by The New Yorker in 2017. It was at such a store that, thanks to their wide and eclectic range of often offbeat literary biographies, I came across Jean Nathan’s The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright.
I try to do my part to keep my passion for books alive through stores like these, as it’s there that you can often unearth valuable, out-of-print gems that you would unlikely find anywhere else. Bookshops like these have become a precious rarity in the digital age and especially with the continued decline of brick-and-mortar retail. A few months back, I was browsing the shelves of my favorite used bookstore.
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