![]() ![]() ![]() Bear and Little Bear-and her problem is solved. One morning, two unexpected visitors arrive-Mr. The story of the first, most well known, book, published in 1957, introduces Edith, a doll with a severe case of loneliness. And I find this new interest in Dare Wright’s life intriguing and mystifying.” “It moves from the dark side to the light side. Why such widespread interest in the deceased creator of a series of children’s books, more than forty years old, featuring a doll and two teddy bears? “Everybody I know loves the story,” muses Danny Shapiro of The Toy Shoppe in Richmond, Virginia. Most of the major media’s coverage of the biography explored, in some detail, those “strange reactions.” “That window display elicited the strangest reactions from people who’d read the books,” reports Ivy’s Books owner Jay Pearsall. Nathan’s book, The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll (Henry Holt), sat in an antique birdcage in the center of the display. Peering more closely at the quirky display, I quickly realized its impetus: the publication that month of a biography of Dare Wright by Jean Nathan, which had already been generating press attention in publications like The New York Times and Vogue magazine. So I literally stopped short when, early in the autumn of 2004, I passed one of my favorite bookshops, Ivy’s Books, and saw an old felt doll, a teddy bear and a group of Dare Wright’s The Lonely Doll books filling the front window. ![]() Dolls are rarely in the limelight in my upper West Side neighborhood of Manhattan. ![]()
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