Hello and welcome to Audrey Hepburn Circle, a new Audrey Hepburn group
that I hope will evolve into a good place to hear Audrey news, learn,
discuss and exchange opinions on all things Audrey.

Thanks for the invite J, I just read the Spoto's Enchantment and Robert
Anderson's After so I reckon I've something new to share with you. A
bitty busy at work though. Get back to Audrey Hepburn Circle later.

--- In audreyhepburncircle@..., "jason2t2"
<jasontoothytoo@y...> wrote:
>
> Hello and welcome to Audrey Hepburn Circle, a new Audrey Hepburn
group
> that I hope will evolve into a good place to hear Audrey news, learn,
> discuss and exchange opinions on all things Audrey.
>

Yes, I like this group idea, J. :) I hope it takes off and is well
received. I haven't had a chance to read Donald Spoto's biography
yet, so I'm looking forward to hearing about that and of course
Robert Anderson's After. I haven't read that one yet either. What do
you reckon about the affair claim that I keep hearing about? I
imagine quissurer711 has some comments on the topic having read both
the books that mention it in one way or another. Do tell! :)


--- In audreyhepburncircle@..., "quissuer711"
<tchotchky@y...> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the invite J, I just read the Spoto's Enchantment and
Robert
> Anderson's After so I reckon I've something new to share with you.
A
> bitty busy at work though. Get back to Audrey Hepburn Circle later.
>
> --- In audreyhepburncircle@..., "jason2t2"
> <jasontoothytoo@y...> wrote:
> >
> > Hello and welcome to Audrey Hepburn Circle, a new Audrey Hepburn
> group
> > that I hope will evolve into a good place to hear Audrey news,
learn,
> > discuss and exchange opinions on all things Audrey.
> >
>

Shouldn't the Audrey Hepburn Circle have a picture on the front page?
I've seen that sort of thing elsewhere. Obviously, I understand that
the cement of the foundation for this group has only just set and
building it may take a while, but a photo of Audrey would be
welcoming, I feel. How about it, J? :)

You could be onto something there, Chipmunk: We definitely should have
a group pic! I'll try to get something up soon. Did you have any
particular one in mind that you'd like to see there? I'd prefer some
pic that isn't so "worn", if you get my meaning. The promo pics of
Audrey as Holly Golightly are stunning, but one sees them everywhere.
I'd say let's choose something different!

This place will take some building, as you say. For one thing, we
ought to fill the links library with links to good Audrey Hepburn
websites. All members are most welcome to help, naturally.


--- In audreyhepburncircle@..., chipmunkalvyne
<no_reply@y...> wrote:
>
> Shouldn't the Audrey Hepburn Circle have a picture on the front
page?
> I've seen that sort of thing elsewhere. Obviously, I understand that
> the cement of the foundation for this group has only just set and
> building it may take a while, but a photo of Audrey would be
> welcoming, I feel. How about it, J? :)
>

There! We now have a group pic, Audrey in War and Peace! I also
changed the colors on here to go better with the pic. Let me know
what you guys think.

--- In audreyhepburncircle@..., "jason2t2"
<jasontoothytoo@y...> wrote:
>
> You could be onto something there, Chipmunk: We definitely should
have
> a group pic! I'll try to get something up soon. Did you have any
> particular one in mind that you'd like to see there? I'd prefer
some
> pic that isn't so "worn", if you get my meaning. The promo pics of
> Audrey as Holly Golightly are stunning, but one sees them
everywhere.
> I'd say let's choose something different!
>
> This place will take some building, as you say. For one thing, we
> ought to fill the links library with links to good Audrey Hepburn
> websites. All members are most welcome to help, naturally.
>
>
> --- In audreyhepburncircle@..., chipmunkalvyne
> <no_reply@y...> wrote:
> >
> > Shouldn't the Audrey Hepburn Circle have a picture on the front
> page?
> > I've seen that sort of thing elsewhere. Obviously, I understand
that
> > the cement of the foundation for this group has only just set
and
> > building it may take a while, but a photo of Audrey would be
> > welcoming, I feel. How about it, J? :)
> >
>

Glad you could join! Yeah, what's the verdict on After by Anderson and
Enchantment by Spoto? Don't hold back! :-)

--- In audreyhepburncircle@..., "quissuer711"
<tchotchky@y...> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the invite J, I just read the Spoto's Enchantment and
Robert
> Anderson's After so I reckon I've something new to share with you. A
> bitty busy at work though. Get back to Audrey Hepburn Circle later.
>
> --- In audreyhepburncircle@..., "jason2t2"
> <jasontoothytoo@y...> wrote:
> >
> > Hello and welcome to Audrey Hepburn Circle, a new Audrey Hepburn
> group
> > that I hope will evolve into a good place to hear Audrey news,
learn,
> > discuss and exchange opinions on all things Audrey.
> >
>

Before anyone starts accusing me of not knowing my War and Peace
from my Sabrina, I'd better mention that I changed the group pic and
this one is from Sabrina. :-)

--- In audreyhepburncircle@..., "jason2t2"
<jasontoothytoo@y...> wrote:
>
> There! We now have a group pic, Audrey in War and Peace! I also
> changed the colors on here to go better with the pic. Let me know
> what you guys think.
>
> --- In audreyhepburncircle@..., "jason2t2"
> <jasontoothytoo@y...> wrote:
> >
> > You could be onto something there, Chipmunk: We definitely
should
> have
> > a group pic! I'll try to get something up soon. Did you have any
> > particular one in mind that you'd like to see there? I'd prefer
> some
> > pic that isn't so "worn", if you get my meaning. The promo pics
of
> > Audrey as Holly Golightly are stunning, but one sees them
> everywhere.
> > I'd say let's choose something different!
> >
> > This place will take some building, as you say. For one thing,
we
> > ought to fill the links library with links to good Audrey
Hepburn
> > websites. All members are most welcome to help, naturally.
> >
> >
> > --- In audreyhepburncircle@..., chipmunkalvyne
> > <no_reply@y...> wrote:
> > >
> > > Shouldn't the Audrey Hepburn Circle have a picture on the
front
> > page?
> > > I've seen that sort of thing elsewhere. Obviously, I
understand
> that
> > > the cement of the foundation for this group has only just set
> and
> > > building it may take a while, but a photo of Audrey would be
> > > welcoming, I feel. How about it, J? :)
> > >
> >
>

I said I'd be back LOL!
Here goes the verdict! Donald Spoto's biography, Enchantment - The
Life of Audrey Hepburn, is well-written bio, however most of the
accounts he has, Audrey fans and admirers already knew more or less,
except his "surprise" new player in her life, Robert Anderson, the
scriptwriter of The Nun's Story, who today is 89-90 years old, still
living. The author's claim of Audrey's affair with Anderson raises a
lot of question in my mind as to the veracity of his account. Is
Spoto a confidante of Anderson? I'd take it only cum grano salis.

Read this passage from Enchantment:

Over the course of several years, Bob confided the details of the
affair to this author, asking that it not be set down until Audrey's
death. "My novel After [published in 1973] really tells the whole
story of my affair with Audrey," he said. Indeed, the book is lightly
coded document of the entire range of their intimacy often in
astonishingly frank sexual detail.

After tells the story of a writer named Chris Larsen, in his early
forties (Bob was forty in  1957); in the opening chapters of the
book, he nurses his cancer-stricken wife until her death--just as Bob
had done for Phyllis. Chris then meets a twenty-two-year old actress
named Marianne: Audrey was twenty-eight and had just played the role
of Ariane. The novelist's description of Marianne is a perfect
description of Audrey: "The first thing you noticed was 'style.' She
was tall and slender and held herself beautifully, almost like a
dancer. Her dark hair was worn in her own particular style, not the
style of the day... I saw her large dark eyes. The entire effect of
er was striking. She had style, dedication, real excitement."

After is just exactly that. A man starting to pick up the pieces of
his life after mourning the death of his wife and meets Marianne:

In the eight weeks' time of the novel, Christopher Larsen is torn
between his own wish to mourn and his tremendous need to reestablish
himself among the living and to love again. In an earlier work, Mr.
Anderson wrote: "Death ends a life, but it does not end a
relationship which struggles on the mind of the survivor." In After,
Christopher Larsen gradually faces that relationship, the past, the
image and the reality of his marriage, while simultaneously living
the exhilarating and unexpected events of the present.

Louis Untermeyer, the poet and anthologist wrote about Anderson's
After: "I cannot remember reading anything so delicately yet
definitively responsive to states of feeling, so sensitive to
changing nuances of emotion. It is both candid and probing about sex,
unflinching about sex without love, pathetic about love without sex,
and triumphant where sex and love are united."

Great name! Great new club!
Great group picture! YESSS!!!
Definitely, positively STILL
an Audreyphile. :-)
Thanks for sounding off.
Hope the members rev it up with
interesting discussion.
So far so good guys!

I was beginning to think you had forgotten to post! I'm kidding, I'm
just kidding! :) Seriously, though, it's nice to hear opinions and
information about this. I gather if it turned out that Donald Spoto
and Robert Anderson are close friends, you'd be persuaded? I have
been trying to look up Robert Anderson to find out more about him,
but it has proved difficult. In some biographies about Audrey he
isn't mentioned at all and in others he is referred to in passing
as "Robert (Tea and Sympathy) Anderson". Googling also brings up
little more than a list of his work and the fact that he was married
twice. He might be a pretty withdrawn person. Anyhow, perhaps a more
extensive bio will crop up online once some Audrey Hepburn fan
starts researching this. If anyone here feels tempted to, please
do. :) The passage from Spoto's Enchantment that you posted does
suggest that After is autobiographical at least to some extent.

--- In audreyhepburncircle@..., "quissuer711"
<tchotchky@y...> wrote:
>
> I said I'd be back LOL!
> Here goes the verdict! Donald Spoto's biography, Enchantment - The
> Life of Audrey Hepburn, is well-written bio, however most of the
> accounts he has, Audrey fans and admirers already knew more or
less,
> except his "surprise" new player in her life, Robert Anderson, the
> scriptwriter of The Nun's Story, who today is 89-90 years old,
still
> living. The author's claim of Audrey's affair with Anderson raises
a
> lot of question in my mind as to the veracity of his account. Is
> Spoto a confidante of Anderson? I'd take it only cum grano salis.
>
> Read this passage from Enchantment:
>
> Over the course of several years, Bob confided the details of the
> affair to this author, asking that it not be set down until
Audrey's
> death. "My novel After [published in 1973] really tells the whole
> story of my affair with Audrey," he said. Indeed, the book is
lightly
> coded document of the entire range of their intimacy often in
> astonishingly frank sexual detail.
>
> After tells the story of a writer named Chris Larsen, in his early
> forties (Bob was forty in  1957); in the opening chapters of the
> book, he nurses his cancer-stricken wife until her death--just as
Bob
> had done for Phyllis. Chris then meets a twenty-two-year old
actress
> named Marianne: Audrey was twenty-eight and had just played the
role
> of Ariane. The novelist's description of Marianne is a perfect
> description of Audrey: "The first thing you noticed was 'style.'
She
> was tall and slender and held herself beautifully, almost like a
> dancer. Her dark hair was worn in her own particular style, not
the
> style of the day... I saw her large dark eyes. The entire effect
of
> er was striking. She had style, dedication, real excitement."
>
> After is just exactly that. A man starting to pick up the pieces
of
> his life after mourning the death of his wife and meets Marianne:
>
> In the eight weeks' time of the novel, Christopher Larsen is torn
> between his own wish to mourn and his tremendous need to
reestablish
> himself among the living and to love again. In an earlier work,
Mr.
> Anderson wrote: "Death ends a life, but it does not end a
> relationship which struggles on the mind of the survivor." In
After,
> Christopher Larsen gradually faces that relationship, the past,
the
> image and the reality of his marriage, while simultaneously living
> the exhilarating and unexpected events of the present.
>
> Louis Untermeyer, the poet and anthologist wrote about Anderson's
> After: "I cannot remember reading anything so delicately yet
> definitively responsive to states of feeling, so sensitive to
> changing nuances of emotion. It is both candid and probing about
sex,
> unflinching about sex without love, pathetic about love without
sex,
> and triumphant where sex and love are united."
>

Hiya guys! Some "surprise" from Donald Spoto,eh! After reading
reviews of this book, I might pick up my copy. This author's books
I've run across in the past, just never read any. I had to take a
quick trip via Google. Yes, I understand your "cum grano salis".
Anyhow, I just read bits about him online. Spoto, prior to turning
biographer-historian, was once an academician, thus he seems to have
credence. His assertion that the goal of the biographer is first and
foremost to tell the truth -- "....to set the record straight,
celebrate lives, and set forth certain aspects of history and human
behavior..." speaks volume to me that he rightfully deserves a
reading. What do you think?

Robert Anderson, I am seriously curious about to see how much "truth"
there is on his memorialized After about his affair with Audrey
Hepburn, but then how many men had not fallen in love with Audrey
when they met her? Fantasized about her? Who knows whether Anderson
was one admirer looking from a distance who fashioned his heroine
after her.


:)Welcome to Audrey Hepburn Circle, Reedlee!


--- In audreyhepburncircle@..., "quissuer711"
<tchotchky@y...> wrote:
>
> I said I'd be back LOL!
> Here goes the verdict! Donald Spoto's biography, Enchantment - The
> Life of Audrey Hepburn, is well-written bio, however most of the
> accounts he has, Audrey fans and admirers already knew more or
less,
> except his "surprise" new player in her life, Robert Anderson, the
> scriptwriter of The Nun's Story, who today is 89-90 years old,
still
> living. The author's claim of Audrey's affair with Anderson raises
a
> lot of question in my mind as to the veracity of his account. Is
> Spoto a confidante of Anderson? I'd take it only cum grano salis.
>
> Read this passage from Enchantment:
>
> Over the course of several years, Bob confided the details of the
> affair to this author, asking that it not be set down until
Audrey's
> death. "My novel After [published in 1973] really tells the whole
> story of my affair with Audrey," he said. Indeed, the book is
lightly
> coded document of the entire range of their intimacy often in
> astonishingly frank sexual detail.
>
> After tells the story of a writer named Chris Larsen, in his early
> forties (Bob was forty in  1957); in the opening chapters of the
> book, he nurses his cancer-stricken wife until her death--just as
Bob
> had done for Phyllis. Chris then meets a twenty-two-year old
actress
> named Marianne: Audrey was twenty-eight and had just played the
role
> of Ariane. The novelist's description of Marianne is a perfect
> description of Audrey: "The first thing you noticed was 'style.'
She
> was tall and slender and held herself beautifully, almost like a
> dancer. Her dark hair was worn in her own particular style, not the
> style of the day... I saw her large dark eyes. The entire effect of
> er was striking. She had style, dedication, real excitement."
>
> After is just exactly that. A man starting to pick up the pieces of
> his life after mourning the death of his wife and meets Marianne:
>
> In the eight weeks' time of the novel, Christopher Larsen is torn
> between his own wish to mourn and his tremendous need to
reestablish
> himself among the living and to love again. In an earlier work, Mr.
> Anderson wrote: "Death ends a life, but it does not end a
> relationship which struggles on the mind of the survivor." In
After,
> Christopher Larsen gradually faces that relationship, the past, the
> image and the reality of his marriage, while simultaneously living
> the exhilarating and unexpected events of the present.
>
> Louis Untermeyer, the poet and anthologist wrote about Anderson's
> After: "I cannot remember reading anything so delicately yet
> definitively responsive to states of feeling, so sensitive to
> changing nuances of emotion. It is both candid and probing about
sex,
> unflinching about sex without love, pathetic about love without
sex,
> and triumphant where sex and love are united."
>

I just joined, too. This seems to be one of the more active Audrey
Hepburn forums about – very nice! :)

Welcome to Audrey Hepburn Circle, lottaxls! :-) Glad to see more
people join!

--- In audreyhepburncircle@..., lottaxls <no_reply@y...>
wrote:
>
> I just joined, too. This seems to be one of the more active Audrey
> Hepburn forums about – very nice! :)
>

I've added some links to the group's links library, including one to
the Donald Spoto interview that I mentioned previously. You'll find
them here:
http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/audreyhepburncircle/links/

The links are arranged in folders to keep it easier to find what you
are looking for. Currently, there are links to some transcrips of
films, as well as a couple of transcripts of TV programs about Audrey
Hepburn, fan sites, a quiz or two, and so on and so forth. With so
many websites around, chances are that your favourites are missing.
Explore the links section and add your own! :-)

Have you added a link to The Audrey Hepburn Library
(http://audreyhepburnlibrary.com/) already? If you haven't, I'd like
it added. In which folder should it go?
Thanks for the link to the Spoto interview. I was about to ask you for
it, as it happens, but you beat me to it!

--- In audreyhepburncircle@..., "jason2t2"
<jasontoothytoo@y...> wrote:
>
> I've added some links to the group's links library, including one to
> the Donald Spoto interview that I mentioned previously. You'll find
> them here:
> http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/audreyhepburncircle/links/
>
> The links are arranged in folders to keep it easier to find what you
> are looking for. Currently, there are links to some transcrips of
> films, as well as a couple of transcripts of TV programs about Audrey
> Hepburn, fan sites, a quiz or two, and so on and so forth. With so
> many websites around, chances are that your favourites are missing.
> Explore the links section and add your own! :-)
>

We haven't discussed the new book "The Audrey Hepburn Treasures: Pictures and
Mementos from a Life of Style" here yet, but I hear it has been published in
German as well. It's reviewed (or promoted) here:
http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/kino/0,1518,442777,00.html
   Even for those of you who may not read German it is worth having a look at the
page. It features a slideshow with photos from the book, among others some
rarely seen family photos, as opposed to the "worn" photos that Jason mentioned
before... :) I never did say that I like the colours and the group photo you
have put up. Thanks.





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Hello, I've just signed up too! It's good to see a fresh Audrey group
that still talks to each other and is excited about all that's going
on. :) I run the Fabulous Audrey Hepburn in my spare time, too. I
can't wait to see where this new group goes!

Welcome, welcome to Audrey Hepburn Circle, FabAudrey! Wonderful you
could join infant group of a few days old. :-)

Yes, I know your website. I've been there, http://www.fabaudrey.com/,
read your comment on http://fabaudrey.blogspot.com/ about the "pretty
steamy" Anderson book. As you can see we are into it here. Now I'm
piqued with morbid curiousity, (only joshing:-)). Quissurer mate, tell
us more about After.



--- In audreyhepburncircle@..., "fabaudrey20"
<Megami.san@g...> wrote:
>
> Hello, I've just signed up too! It's good to see a fresh Audrey group
> that still talks to each other and is excited about all that's going
> on. :) I run the Fabulous Audrey Hepburn in my spare time, too. I
> can't wait to see where this new group goes!
>

Thank you for this Audrey Hepburn Treasures input, Chips. I'm pretty
sure the guys would be interested in AH Treasures. What do you say
mates?!?  Any of you got this book? :-) Give your review please?!


--- In audreyhepburncircle@..., Chips
<chipmunkalvyne@y...> wrote:
>
> We haven't discussed the new book "The Audrey Hepburn Treasures:
Pictures and Mementos from a Life of Style" here yet, but I hear it
has been published in German as well. It's reviewed (or promoted)
here: http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/kino/0,1518,442777,00.html
>   Even for those of you who may not read German it is worth having
a look at the page. It features a slideshow with photos from the
book, among others some rarely seen family photos, as opposed to
the "worn" photos that Jason mentioned before... :) I never did say
that I like the colours and the group photo you have put up. Thanks.
>
>
>
>
>
> ---------------------------------
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>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>

What a timely topic, I just came by to crow with joy because it
appears that I won the marvellous first prize in the first
FabAudrey.com contest, The Audrey Hepburn Treasures! I can't believe
my luck!! One of the bookshops around these parts had a copy that
I've admired, but the second time I went to look at it, it was gone.
I'd better calm down and stop gushing before someone brings me a
paper bag to breathe through, but what I was getting at was that
I'll give a proper review once I have read it and looked at all
pictures and whatnot. :)


--- In audreyhepburncircle@..., "jason2t2"
<jasontoothytoo@y...> wrote:
>
> Thank you for this Audrey Hepburn Treasures input, Chips. I'm
pretty
> sure the guys would be interested in AH Treasures. What do you say
> mates?!?  Any of you got this book? :-) Give your review please?!
>
>
> --- In audreyhepburncircle@..., Chips
> <chipmunkalvyne@y...> wrote:
> >
> > We haven't discussed the new book "The Audrey Hepburn Treasures:
> Pictures and Mementos from a Life of Style" here yet, but I hear
it
> has been published in German as well. It's reviewed (or promoted)
> here: http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/kino/0,1518,442777,00.html
> >   Even for those of you who may not read German it is worth
having
> a look at the page. It features a slideshow with photos from the
> book, among others some rarely seen family photos, as opposed to
> the "worn" photos that Jason mentioned before... :) I never did
say
> that I like the colours and the group photo you have put up.
Thanks.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ---------------------------------
> > Get your email and more, right on the  new Yahoo.com
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
>

ChipmunkAlvynne, you said "if it turned out that Donald Spoto and
Robert Anderson are close friends, you'd be persuaded? " They might
be friends. My question to Spoto is how long ago were the two of them
together? During or After publication of his Enchantment? If you ask
me. LOL!:)) After is a dream fantasy of a middle-age man. Simply
incredible

Here's more info on Robert Anderson for you Chip:

Robert Anderson was born in NYC in 1917, attended at Philips Exeter
Academy and graduated from Harvard University in 1939, married
Phyllis Stohl, director of a Boston school, and earned his M.A. at
Harvard the following year. While completing courses toward a Ph.D.,
he wrote twenty-one one-act plays, wrote the book music and lyrics
for college musicals, did drama criticism, and taught drama and
writing courses. He served for four years as a Naval officer in the
Pacific in WWII; and during that time, wrote Come Marching Home,
which won the National Theatre Conference prize for the best play
written by a serviceman on overseas duty.

In 1953 Anderson's first Broadway play, Tea and Sympathy opened, and
became the longest-running hit in the twenty-one-year history of the
Playwrights' Company, which also produced his All Summer Long in
1954. Prior to the production of Tea and Sympay, he wrote extensively
for television and radio, and started the playwriting courses at the
Actors Studio and the American Wing Theatre, where he taught for four
years. He was one of the original members of The New Dramatists, and
was president of the group for a year.

He has written screenplays, notably The Nun's Story and The Sand
Pebbles. He was married to Phyllis Stohl for sixteen years until her
death of cancer in 1956. In 1959 he married Teresa Wright, actress,
they lived in New York City until their divorced in 1978.

After published 1973 is his first novel.


-- In audreyhepburncircle@..., "chipmunkalvyne"
<chipmunkalvyne@y...> wrote:
>
> I was beginning to think you had forgotten to post! I'm kidding,
I'm
> just kidding! :) Seriously, though, it's nice to hear opinions and
> information about this. I gather if it turned out that Donald Spoto
> and Robert Anderson are close friends, you'd be persuaded? I have
> been trying to look up Robert Anderson to find out more about him,
> but it has proved difficult. In some biographies about Audrey he
> isn't mentioned at all and in others he is referred to in passing
> as "Robert (Tea and Sympathy) Anderson". Googling also brings up
> little more than a list of his work and the fact that he was
married
> twice. He might be a pretty withdrawn person. Anyhow, perhaps a
more
> extensive bio will crop up online once some Audrey Hepburn fan
> starts researching this. If anyone here feels tempted to, please
> do. :) The passage from Spoto's Enchantment that you posted does
> suggest that After is autobiographical at least to some extent.
>
> --- In audreyhepburncircle@..., "quissuer711"
> <tchotchky@y...> wrote:
> >
> > I said I'd be back LOL!
> > Here goes the verdict! Donald Spoto's biography, Enchantment -
The
> > Life of Audrey Hepburn, is well-written bio, however most of the
> > accounts he has, Audrey fans and admirers already knew more or
> less,
> > except his "surprise" new player in her life, Robert Anderson,
the
> > scriptwriter of The Nun's Story, who today is 89-90 years old,
> still
> > living. The author's claim of Audrey's affair with Anderson
raises
> a
> > lot of question in my mind as to the veracity of his account. Is
> > Spoto a confidante of Anderson? I'd take it only cum grano salis.
> >
> > Read this passage from Enchantment:
> >
> > Over the course of several years, Bob confided the details of the
> > affair to this author, asking that it not be set down until
> Audrey's
> > death. "My novel After [published in 1973] really tells the whole
> > story of my affair with Audrey," he said. Indeed, the book is
> lightly
> > coded document of the entire range of their intimacy often in
> > astonishingly frank sexual detail.
> >
> > After tells the story of a writer named Chris Larsen, in his
early
> > forties (Bob was forty in  1957); in the opening chapters of the
> > book, he nurses his cancer-stricken wife until her death--just as
> Bob
> > had done for Phyllis. Chris then meets a twenty-two-year old
> actress
> > named Marianne: Audrey was twenty-eight and had just played the
> role
> > of Ariane. The novelist's description of Marianne is a perfect
> > description of Audrey: "The first thing you noticed was 'style.'
> She
> > was tall and slender and held herself beautifully, almost like a
> > dancer. Her dark hair was worn in her own particular style, not
> the
> > style of the day... I saw her large dark eyes. The entire effect
> of
> > er was striking. She had style, dedication, real excitement."
> >
> > After is just exactly that. A man starting to pick up the pieces
> of
> > his life after mourning the death of his wife and meets Marianne:
> >
> > In the eight weeks' time of the novel, Christopher Larsen is torn
> > between his own wish to mourn and his tremendous need to
> reestablish
> > himself among the living and to love again. In an earlier work,
> Mr.
> > Anderson wrote: "Death ends a life, but it does not end a
> > relationship which struggles on the mind of the survivor." In
> After,
> > Christopher Larsen gradually faces that relationship, the past,
> the
> > image and the reality of his marriage, while simultaneously
living
> > the exhilarating and unexpected events of the present.
> >
> > Louis Untermeyer, the poet and anthologist wrote about Anderson's
> > After: "I cannot remember reading anything so delicately yet
> > definitively responsive to states of feeling, so sensitive to
> > changing nuances of emotion. It is both candid and probing about
> sex,
> > unflinching about sex without love, pathetic about love without
> sex,
> > and triumphant where sex and love are united."
> >
>

Hey guys, this is my final verdict on Spoto's Enchantment. Tell me
whether you agree/disagree with me because I don't buy into
his "revelation" of Audrey's affair with Robert Anderson.

Okay, for a starter, Spoto writes: "Bob confided the details of the
affair to this author, asking it not be set down until after Audrey's
death."

But what took him too long. Audrey Hepburn died thirteen years ago.
Why only now?

Second,  Anderson's novel, After, published 1973, was dedicated to
Teresa Wright, his wife of eighteen years. She died March 2006, last
year.

Tell me what kind of casuistry is that??? dedicating to his wife a
book about his affair with another woman?!?

Third, Spoto speaks of the "perfect description" of Marianne which
fits Audrey, so what? Is that his proof of the affair? So do the
characters of the husband, the wife, the mother, and the son in
Anderson's play of a troubled relationship titled "The Days Between",
a play that is also dedicated to Teresa Wright.

4) If I may comment on Spoto's beginning chapter of Enchantment, he
gives me the impression of being there onboard the ship with Audrey's
parents when enroute to England! Well, He ain't there!



--- In audreyhepburncircle@..., "jason2t2"
<jasontoothytoo@y...> wrote:
>
> Hiya guys! Some "surprise" from Donald Spoto,eh! After reading
> reviews of this book, I might pick up my copy. This author's books
> I've run across in the past, just never read any. I had to take a
> quick trip via Google. Yes, I understand your "cum grano salis".
> Anyhow, I just read bits about him online. Spoto, prior to turning
> biographer-historian, was once an academician, thus he seems to
have
> credence. His assertion that the goal of the biographer is first
and
> foremost to tell the truth -- "....to set the record straight,
> celebrate lives, and set forth certain aspects of history and human
> behavior..." speaks volume to me that he rightfully deserves a
> reading. What do you think?
>
> Robert Anderson, I am seriously curious about to see how
much "truth"
> there is on his memorialized After about his affair with Audrey
> Hepburn, but then how many men had not fallen in love with Audrey
> when they met her? Fantasized about her? Who knows whether Anderson
> was one admirer looking from a distance who fashioned his heroine
> after her.
>
>
> :)Welcome to Audrey Hepburn Circle, Reedlee!
>
>
> --- In audreyhepburncircle@..., "quissuer711"
> <tchotchky@y...> wrote:
> >
> > I said I'd be back LOL!
> > Here goes the verdict! Donald Spoto's biography, Enchantment -
The
> > Life of Audrey Hepburn, is well-written bio, however most of the
> > accounts he has, Audrey fans and admirers already knew more or
> less,
> > except his "surprise" new player in her life, Robert Anderson,
the
> > scriptwriter of The Nun's Story, who today is 89-90 years old,
> still
> > living. The author's claim of Audrey's affair with Anderson
raises
> a
> > lot of question in my mind as to the veracity of his account. Is
> > Spoto a confidante of Anderson? I'd take it only cum grano salis.
> >
> > Read this passage from Enchantment:
> >
> > Over the course of several years, Bob confided the details of the
> > affair to this author, asking that it not be set down until
> Audrey's
> > death. "My novel After [published in 1973] really tells the whole
> > story of my affair with Audrey," he said. Indeed, the book is
> lightly
> > coded document of the entire range of their intimacy often in
> > astonishingly frank sexual detail.
> >
> > After tells the story of a writer named Chris Larsen, in his
early
> > forties (Bob was forty in  1957); in the opening chapters of the
> > book, he nurses his cancer-stricken wife until her death--just as
> Bob
> > had done for Phyllis. Chris then meets a twenty-two-year old
> actress
> > named Marianne: Audrey was twenty-eight and had just played the
> role
> > of Ariane. The novelist's description of Marianne is a perfect
> > description of Audrey: "The first thing you noticed was 'style.'
> She
> > was tall and slender and held herself beautifully, almost like a
> > dancer. Her dark hair was worn in her own particular style, not
the
> > style of the day... I saw her large dark eyes. The entire effect
of
> > er was striking. She had style, dedication, real excitement."
> >
> > After is just exactly that. A man starting to pick up the pieces
of
> > his life after mourning the death of his wife and meets Marianne:
> >
> > In the eight weeks' time of the novel, Christopher Larsen is torn
> > between his own wish to mourn and his tremendous need to
> reestablish
> > himself among the living and to love again. In an earlier work,
Mr.
> > Anderson wrote: "Death ends a life, but it does not end a
> > relationship which struggles on the mind of the survivor." In
> After,
> > Christopher Larsen gradually faces that relationship, the past,
the
> > image and the reality of his marriage, while simultaneously
living
> > the exhilarating and unexpected events of the present.
> >
> > Louis Untermeyer, the poet and anthologist wrote about Anderson's
> > After: "I cannot remember reading anything so delicately yet
> > definitively responsive to states of feeling, so sensitive to
> > changing nuances of emotion. It is both candid and probing about
> sex,
> > unflinching about sex without love, pathetic about love without
> sex,
> > and triumphant where sex and love are united."
> >
>

The winning is what's thrilling. Congratulations, lottaxls! And on
behalf of Audrey Hepburn Circle, welcome to our group!


--- In audreyhepburncircle@..., lottaxls
<no_reply@y...> wrote:
>
> What a timely topic, I just came by to crow with joy because it
> appears that I won the marvellous first prize in the first
> FabAudrey.com contest, The Audrey Hepburn Treasures! I can't
believe
> my luck!! One of the bookshops around these parts had a copy that
> I've admired, but the second time I went to look at it, it was
gone.
> I'd better calm down and stop gushing before someone brings me a
> paper bag to breathe through, but what I was getting at was that
> I'll give a proper review once I have read it and looked at all
> pictures and whatnot. :)
>
>
> --- In audreyhepburncircle@..., "jason2t2"
> <jasontoothytoo@y...> wrote:
> >
> > Thank you for this Audrey Hepburn Treasures input, Chips. I'm
> pretty
> > sure the guys would be interested in AH Treasures. What do you
say
> > mates?!?  Any of you got this book? :-) Give your review please?!
> >
> >
> > --- In audreyhepburncircle@..., Chips
> > <chipmunkalvyne@y...> wrote:
> > >
> > > We haven't discussed the new book "The Audrey Hepburn
Treasures:
> > Pictures and Mementos from a Life of Style" here yet, but I hear
> it
> > has been published in German as well. It's reviewed (or promoted)
> > here: http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/kino/0,1518,442777,00.html
> > >   Even for those of you who may not read German it is worth
> having
> > a look at the page. It features a slideshow with photos from the
> > book, among others some rarely seen family photos, as opposed to
> > the "worn" photos that Jason mentioned before... :) I never did
> say
> > that I like the colours and the group photo you have put up.
> Thanks.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ---------------------------------
> > > Get your email and more, right on the  new Yahoo.com
> > >
> > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> > >
> >
>

I haven't finished reading "After" yet (almost done, though!), and I
have to say that there's no description of Marianne in the book that
gives away any aspect of Audrey, beyond a vague description of dark
hair and expressive, dark eyes. The book also entirely focuses on sex,
no affection or love at all, though he claims it. I don't think it's a
love story at all, just a trashy romance novel. Well, at least it was
only $5. :P

I personally don't believe this "new" affair, either. If, as Spoto
claimed, everyone on the set of Nun's Story knew about it, why has no
rumor even come before this book? The rumors about her and Albert
Finney or William Holden have always been around, why not Anderson?
Just too fishy for me.

And congrats again, Lotta! :D


--- In audreyhepburncircle@..., quissuer711
<no_reply@y...> wrote:
>
> Hey guys, this is my final verdict on Spoto's Enchantment. Tell me
> whether you agree/disagree with me because I don't buy into
> his "revelation" of Audrey's affair with Robert Anderson.
>
> Okay, for a starter, Spoto writes: "Bob confided the details of the
> affair to this author, asking it not be set down until after Audrey's
> death."
>
> But what took him too long. Audrey Hepburn died thirteen years ago.
> Why only now?
>
> Second,  Anderson's novel, After, published 1973, was dedicated to
> Teresa Wright, his wife of eighteen years. She died March 2006, last
> year.
>
> Tell me what kind of casuistry is that??? dedicating to his wife a
> book about his affair with another woman?!?
>
> Third, Spoto speaks of the "perfect description" of Marianne which
> fits Audrey, so what? Is that his proof of the affair? So do the
> characters of the husband, the wife, the mother, and the son in
> Anderson's play of a troubled relationship titled "The Days Between",
> a play that is also dedicated to Teresa Wright.
>
> 4) If I may comment on Spoto's beginning chapter of Enchantment, he
> gives me the impression of being there onboard the ship with Audrey's
> parents when enroute to England! Well, He ain't there!
>
>
>
> --- In audreyhepburncircle@..., "jason2t2"
> <jasontoothytoo@y...> wrote:
> >
> > Hiya guys! Some "surprise" from Donald Spoto,eh! After reading
> > reviews of this book, I might pick up my copy. This author's books
> > I've run across in the past, just never read any. I had to take a
> > quick trip via Google. Yes, I understand your "cum grano salis".
> > Anyhow, I just read bits about him online. Spoto, prior to turning
> > biographer-historian, was once an academician, thus he seems to
> have
> > credence. His assertion that the goal of the biographer is first
> and
> > foremost to tell the truth -- "....to set the record straight,
> > celebrate lives, and set forth certain aspects of history and human
> > behavior..." speaks volume to me that he rightfully deserves a
> > reading. What do you think?
> >
> > Robert Anderson, I am seriously curious about to see how
> much "truth"
> > there is on his memorialized After about his affair with Audrey
> > Hepburn, but then how many men had not fallen in love with Audrey
> > when they met her? Fantasized about her? Who knows whether Anderson
> > was one admirer looking from a distance who fashioned his heroine
> > after her.
> >
> >
> > :)Welcome to Audrey Hepburn Circle, Reedlee!
> >
> >
> > --- In audreyhepburncircle@..., "quissuer711"
> > <tchotchky@y...> wrote:
> > >
> > > I said I'd be back LOL!
> > > Here goes the verdict! Donald Spoto's biography, Enchantment -
> The
> > > Life of Audrey Hepburn, is well-written bio, however most of the
> > > accounts he has, Audrey fans and admirers already knew more or
> > less,
> > > except his "surprise" new player in her life, Robert Anderson,
> the
> > > scriptwriter of The Nun's Story, who today is 89-90 years old,
> > still
> > > living. The author's claim of Audrey's affair with Anderson
> raises
> > a
> > > lot of question in my mind as to the veracity of his account. Is
> > > Spoto a confidante of Anderson? I'd take it only cum grano salis.
> > >
> > > Read this passage from Enchantment:
> > >
> > > Over the course of several years, Bob confided the details of the
> > > affair to this author, asking that it not be set down until
> > Audrey's
> > > death. "My novel After [published in 1973] really tells the whole
> > > story of my affair with Audrey," he said. Indeed, the book is
> > lightly
> > > coded document of the entire range of their intimacy often in
> > > astonishingly frank sexual detail.
> > >
> > > After tells the story of a writer named Chris Larsen, in his
> early
> > > forties (Bob was forty in  1957); in the opening chapters of the
> > > book, he nurses his cancer-stricken wife until her death--just as
> > Bob
> > > had done for Phyllis. Chris then meets a twenty-two-year old
> > actress
> > > named Marianne: Audrey was twenty-eight and had just played the
> > role
> > > of Ariane. The novelist's description of Marianne is a perfect
> > > description of Audrey: "The first thing you noticed was 'style.'
> > She
> > > was tall and slender and held herself beautifully, almost like a
> > > dancer. Her dark hair was worn in her own particular style, not
> the
> > > style of the day... I saw her large dark eyes. The entire effect
> of
> > > er was striking. She had style, dedication, real excitement."
> > >
> > > After is just exactly that. A man starting to pick up the pieces
> of
> > > his life after mourning the death of his wife and meets Marianne:
> > >
> > > In the eight weeks' time of the novel, Christopher Larsen is torn
> > > between his own wish to mourn and his tremendous need to
> > reestablish
> > > himself among the living and to love again. In an earlier work,
> Mr.
> > > Anderson wrote: "Death ends a life, but it does not end a
> > > relationship which struggles on the mind of the survivor." In
> > After,
> > > Christopher Larsen gradually faces that relationship, the past,
> the
> > > image and the reality of his marriage, while simultaneously
> living
> > > the exhilarating and unexpected events of the present.
> > >
> > > Louis Untermeyer, the poet and anthologist wrote about Anderson's
> > > After: "I cannot remember reading anything so delicately yet
> > > definitively responsive to states of feeling, so sensitive to
> > > changing nuances of emotion. It is both candid and probing about
> > sex,
> > > unflinching about sex without love, pathetic about love without
> > sex,
> > > and triumphant where sex and love are united."
> > >
> >
>

Having read only snippets of the books we are discussing, my
comments may be badly researched, but I thought I'd chip in anyway,
so to speak. :) Thank you for the background info on Robert
Anderson, quissuer! That was what I was hoping to learn! He seems to
have been productive, I wonder if he still is in good health.

To be honest, at this point I don't know what to believe about the
alleged affair or even if we can ever know the truth. It's easy to
make bold claims when the people involved are not around to defend
themselves and a revelation like this would help to sell a new
biography. On the other hand things like Sean Ferrer's recent
statements and nonchalance in this matter could be seen as
affirmation. I don't find it impossible.

From what I've read, I'd be tempted to agree with fabaudrey in
that "After" seems raunchy rather than romantic. You both talk about
the description of Marianne, its vagueness and if it makes any
difference one way or the other. Even if it were more Audrey-like, I
don't think that on its own means very much. Writers are often
inspired by people they've met, and in their fiction may put the
characters in a different situation to the one they've been in in
real life. Yes, it could be just fantasy.

However, one reason for there not having been any rumours before
this could be that Robert Anderson has shied away from too much
publicity and has been primarily known in his own craft rather than
to the general public. It may not be anything to go by, but I for
example had no idea who he was when I fist heard about Donald
Spoto's claims. Rumours about affairs always receive more attention
if both of the people involved are famous, like in the case of
Audrey and Albert Finney or William Holden.

A condensed timeline would look something like this:
1954: Audrey marries Mel Ferrer
1956: Phyllis Stohl, wife of Robert Anderson, dies
1958: Filming of The Nun's Story, preceded by conferences in
California in 1957
1959: Robert Anderson marries Teresa Wright

1973: Robert Anderson's novel "After" is published

1993: Audrey dies

2006: Teresa Wright, estranged wife of Robert Anderson, dies
2006: Donald Spoto claims that Audrey and Robert Anderson had an
affair some fifty years ago

According to Spoto, is the affair supposed to have taken place
during the filming of The Nun's Story or before filming in
California?

Just to address some of quissuer's points:
> Okay, for a starter, Spoto writes: "Bob confided the details of
> the affair to this author, asking it not be set down until after
> Audrey's death."
>
> But what took him too long. Audrey Hepburn died thirteen years
> ago. Why only now?

Could Robert Anderson have wanted to keep the affair from his second
wife? As you say, she died in March before Spoto's book was
published. If this is the case, though, why didn't Spoto say so? And
is it likely that Anderson would be concerned what his former wife
thought of something that took place before they were married?


> Second,  Anderson's novel, After, published 1973, was dedicated to
> Teresa Wright, his wife of eighteen years. She died March 2006,
> last year.
>
> Tell me what kind of casuistry is that??? dedicating to his wife a
> book about his affair with another woman?!?

Could his wife have thought she was the inspiration for Marianne in
the novel?
Or alternatively: especially as it was his first novel, perhaps
Anderson felt it was unacceptable not to dedicate it to his wife?

Both my posts here are largely wild speculation of course. What do
you think? :)

Thanks for all the congratulations, FabAudrey and Quissuer! :) You
are very kind, especially since I so gracelessly gloated without
participating in the discussion at all! Ok, I am going to join you
doubting Thomases here. :) I haven't read "After", but I can't help
finding it unfortunate that Spoto in "Enchantment" quotes the novel
more than he quotes what Anderson has said in their conversations.


--- In audreyhepburncircle@..., "chipmunkalvyne"
<chipmunkalvyne@y...> wrote:
>
> A condensed timeline would look something like this:
> 1954: Audrey marries Mel Ferrer
> 1956: Phyllis Stohl, wife of Robert Anderson, dies
> 1958: Filming of The Nun's Story, preceded by conferences in
> California in 1957
> 1959: Robert Anderson marries Teresa Wright
>
> 1973: Robert Anderson's novel "After" is published
>
> 1993: Audrey dies
>
> 2006: Teresa Wright, estranged wife of Robert Anderson, dies
> 2006: Donald Spoto claims that Audrey and Robert Anderson had an
> affair some fifty years ago
>
> According to Spoto, is the affair supposed to have taken place
> during the filming of The Nun's Story or before filming in
> California?
>
> Just to address some of quissuer's points:
> > Okay, for a starter, Spoto writes: "Bob confided the details of
> > the affair to this author, asking it not be set down until after
> > Audrey's death."
> >
> > But what took him too long. Audrey Hepburn died thirteen years
> > ago. Why only now?
>
> Could Robert Anderson have wanted to keep the affair from his
second
> wife? As you say, she died in March before Spoto's book was
> published. If this is the case, though, why didn't Spoto say so?
And
> is it likely that Anderson would be concerned what his former wife
> thought of something that took place before they were married?
>
>
> > Second,  Anderson's novel, After, published 1973, was dedicated
to
> > Teresa Wright, his wife of eighteen years. She died March 2006,
> > last year.
> >
> > Tell me what kind of casuistry is that??? dedicating to his wife
a
> > book about his affair with another woman?!?
>
> Could his wife have thought she was the inspiration for Marianne
in
> the novel?
> Or alternatively: especially as it was his first novel, perhaps
> Anderson felt it was unacceptable not to dedicate it to his wife?
>
> Both my posts here are largely wild speculation of course. What do
> you think? :)
>

I like your timeline, Chips. Gives one a perspective. :-)) I'd like
to correct the year Teresa Wright died, my error actually. It was on
March of 2005. I agree with FabAudrey. I'm no graduate or student of
the performing arts, I had never really met Bob Anderson's plays and
novels until now.

After,his novel, I'm sorry to admit if not coming from the
typewriter of Mr. Anderson, a distinguished playwright, I might um...
take as ____ and exactly one you described. No love story at all. I
feel it is ignis fatuus, LOL!

--- In audreyhepburncircle@..., "chipmunkalvyne"
<chipmunkalvyne@y...> wrote:
>
> A condensed timeline would look something like this:
> 1954: Audrey marries Mel Ferrer
> 1956: Phyllis Stohl, wife of Robert Anderson, dies
> 1958: Filming of The Nun's Story, preceded by conferences in
> California in 1957
> 1959: Robert Anderson marries Teresa Wright
>
> 1973: Robert Anderson's novel "After" is published
>
> 1993: Audrey dies
>
> 2006: Teresa Wright, estranged wife of Robert Anderson, dies
> 2006: Donald Spoto claims that Audrey and Robert Anderson had an
> affair some fifty years ago
>
> According to Spoto, is the affair supposed to have taken place
> during the filming of The Nun's Story or before filming in
> California?
>
> Just to address some of quissuer's points:
> > Okay, for a starter, Spoto writes: "Bob confided the details of
> > the affair to this author, asking it not be set down until after
> > Audrey's death."
> >
> > But what took him too long. Audrey Hepburn died thirteen years
> > ago. Why only now?
>
> Could Robert Anderson have wanted to keep the affair from his
second
> wife? As you say, she died in March before Spoto's book was
> published. If this is the case, though, why didn't Spoto say so?
And
> is it likely that Anderson would be concerned what his former wife
> thought of something that took place before they were married?
>
>
> > Second,  Anderson's novel, After, published 1973, was dedicated
to
> > Teresa Wright, his wife of eighteen years. She died March 2006,
> > last year.
> >
> > Tell me what kind of casuistry is that??? dedicating to his wife
a
> > book about his affair with another woman?!?
>
> Could his wife have thought she was the inspiration for Marianne in
> the novel?
> Or alternatively: especially as it was his first novel, perhaps
> Anderson felt it was unacceptable not to dedicate it to his wife?
>
> Both my posts here are largely wild speculation of course. What do
> you think? :)
>

Hiya! Have I missed out on something? I got Spoto's Enchantment! :-)
I've gone ahead to the Anderson chapter that has me thinking why
there is no current interview or comments from Anderson prior to the
writing of the bio. The quotes here must have been made decades ago?
With his background Spoto should be scrupulous about citations!

Helpful timeline, thanks! Oh and Chippers, the alleged affair took
place  before and during filming of The Nun's Story, and ended when
Anderson told Audrey he was congenitally sterile.
"From Hollywood to New York, then on to Rome, Paris, Brussels and
the Congo, Bob Anderson had pursued the affair with Audrey, and she
responded passionately." Spoto writes.
Spoto does not make it easy to track where and when these people
were. He damn names the places without citing when and what -- it's
a slapdash narration, that's what I feel it is!


--- In audreyhepburncircle@..., quissuer711
<no_reply@y...> wrote:
>
> I like your timeline, Chips. Gives one a perspective. :-)) I'd
like
> to correct the year Teresa Wright died, my error actually. It was
on
> March of 2005. I agree with FabAudrey. I'm no graduate or student
of
> the performing arts, I had never really met Bob Anderson's plays
and
> novels until now.
>
> After,his novel, I'm sorry to admit if not coming from the
> typewriter of Mr. Anderson, a distinguished playwright, I might
um...
> take as ____ and exactly one you described. No love story at all.
I
> feel it is ignis fatuus, LOL!
>
> --- In audreyhepburncircle@..., "chipmunkalvyne"
> <chipmunkalvyne@y...> wrote:
> >
> > A condensed timeline would look something like this:
> > 1954: Audrey marries Mel Ferrer
> > 1956: Phyllis Stohl, wife of Robert Anderson, dies
> > 1958: Filming of The Nun's Story, preceded by conferences in
> > California in 1957
> > 1959: Robert Anderson marries Teresa Wright
> >
> > 1973: Robert Anderson's novel "After" is published
> >
> > 1993: Audrey dies
> >
> > 2006: Teresa Wright, estranged wife of Robert Anderson, dies
> > 2006: Donald Spoto claims that Audrey and Robert Anderson had an
> > affair some fifty years ago
> >
> > According to Spoto, is the affair supposed to have taken place
> > during the filming of The Nun's Story or before filming in
> > California?
> >
> > Just to address some of quissuer's points:
> > > Okay, for a starter, Spoto writes: "Bob confided the details
of
> > > the affair to this author, asking it not be set down until
after
> > > Audrey's death."
> > >
> > > But what took him too long. Audrey Hepburn died thirteen years
> > > ago. Why only now?
> >
> > Could Robert Anderson have wanted to keep the affair from his
> second
> > wife? As you say, she died in March before Spoto's book was
> > published. If this is the case, though, why didn't Spoto say so?
> And
> > is it likely that Anderson would be concerned what his former
wife
> > thought of something that took place before they were married?
> >
> >
> > > Second,  Anderson's novel, After, published 1973, was
dedicated
> to
> > > Teresa Wright, his wife of eighteen years. She died March
2006,
> > > last year.
> > >
> > > Tell me what kind of casuistry is that??? dedicating to his
wife
> a
> > > book about his affair with another woman?!?
> >
> > Could his wife have thought she was the inspiration for Marianne
in
> > the novel?
> > Or alternatively: especially as it was his first novel, perhaps
> > Anderson felt it was unacceptable not to dedicate it to his
wife?
> >
> > Both my posts here are largely wild speculation of course. What
do
> > you think? :)
> >
>