Finding My Way: The Autobiography of an Optimist

From: Scandinavian Review | Date: April 1, 2004| Author: Anonymous | Copyright information

Finding My Way: The Autobiography of an Optimist by Evelyn Stefansson Nef The Francis Press, Washington, D.C., 2002 304 pages, hardcover $26.00, 24 plates

Born in 1913 of Hungarian Jewish immigrants, the author was raised in Brooklyn, N.Y. As a bright, talented and attractive young woman, she moved freely within New York's theatrical and literary worlds of the 1930s. She was a friend of the futurist inventor and architect Buckminster Fuller and was briefly married to the master puppete...

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