Kendall Hailey (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Elizabeth Kendall Hailey achieved notoriety and prestige at an early age with the publication of her youthful diaries, entitled The Day I Became an Autodidact. The work, which offers an unusually insightful account of the maturation of a young woman, is characterized by witty detachment.
Hailey is the elder of the two daughters of the writers Oliver Hailey (1932-1994) and Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey. Oliver Hailey was the respected author of such plays as Father’s Day (1970) and For the Use of the Hall (1976). Elizabeth Hailey wrote the novel A Woman of...
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