Jean Nathan worked on her second book. It is about about Simone Jollivet, Jean-Paul Sartre's first love, preceding Simone de Beauvoir, and the subsequent 40-year friendship of the three. A movie based on her first book, The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll, a biography of the children's book author and photographer Dare Wright, was in production as of March 2016.
Discipline:
Literature – nonfiction
Jean Nathan
Discipline:
Literature – nonfiction
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2003, 2014
Studios
Heyward
Jean Nathan worked in the Heyward studio.
The Lodge Annex, a wing on the west side of the men’s dormitory (The Lodge), was completed in 1926. Initially intended as an apartment for a caretaker, the space was soon repurposed as a live-in studio for writers. In recognition of a major endowment gift from the DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Foundation, Lodge Annex was…