Remembering Patricia Bosworth, the memoirist and acclaimed biographer died at the age of 86 due to pneumonia complicated by coronavirus.
Our lives had several parallels. Patti was a Depression Era kid while I was a war baby , but we both ended up in New York for our college years: Patti attended Sarah Lawrence, and I, Barnard. Early in her career, before she started writing the books that made her famous, she was an actress , and while I did not know her at the Actors Studio, I later became a friend and neighbor to two of her fellow students: Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward.
That was the beginning of our closeness. Patti was devastated by the loss of her husband and didn’t think she’d ever write or love again. She wanted to write about Tom, yet she was searching for the next book as we all do. Some books intersect with the times and come out at a moment when everyone wants to read them, while other books are satisfying in the writing but not the publication. You have to be fiercely dedicated to writing in order to live such a chancy life. Patti was. She only wrote about things that obsessed her—Arbus, Clift, Fonda, herself, her father, her brother, her mother .Protest Song: Paul Robeson, J.
My parents were leftist—I grew up a “red diaper baby”—so Patti and I both grew up in families which wanted to change the world for the better, which cared for civil rights and knew how unjust our country could be.
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