**An engrossing debut novel that cannily reimagines the extraordinary life and mysterious death of bohemian Georgetown socialite Mary Pinchot Meyerβ secret lover of JFK, ex-wife of a CIA chief, sexual adventurer, LSD explorer and early feminist living by her own rules.** She was a longtime love
The lost diary of M: a novel
β Scribed by Kennedy, John Fitzgerald;Meyer, Mary;Wolfe, Paul
- Publisher
- Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 156 KB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- New York, N.Y.
- ISBN
- 0062910663
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β¦ Synopsis
An engrossing debut novel that cannily reimagines the extraordinary life and mysterious death of bohemian Georgetown socialite Mary Pinchot Meyer -- secret lover of JFK, ex-wife of a CIA chief, sexual adventurer, LSD explorer and early feminist living by her own rules.
She was a longtime lover of JFK.
She was the ex-wife of a CIA chief.
She was the sister-in-law of the Washington Post's Ben Bradlee.
She believed in mind expansion and took LSD with Timothy Leary.
She was a painter, a socialite and a Bohemian in Georgetown during the Cold War.
And she ended up dead in an unsolved murder a year after JFK's assassination.
The diary she kept was never found.
Until now. . . .
β¦ Subjects
Meyer, Mary, -- 1920-1964
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