Kathryn Hulme (January 6, 1900 – August 25, 1981) was an American author and memoirist most noted for her novel The Nun's Story. The book is often misunderstood to be semi-autobiographical.
Kathryn Hulme
Born
Kathryn Cavarly Hulme (1900-07-06)July 6, 1900 San Francisco, California
Another work, The Undiscovered Country: A Spiritual Adventure published by Little, Brown & Co. was a description of her years as a student of mystic G. I. Gurdjieff and her eventual conversion to Catholicism. Hulme studied with Gurdjieff as part of a group of eight women known as "The Rope," which included: Solita Solano, Kathryn Hulme, Alice Rohrer, Elizabeth Gordon, Louise Davidson, Georgette Leblanc, Margaret Caroline Anderson and Jane Heap[1]
It was at Wildflecken that Hulme met a Belgian nurse and former nun Marie Louise Habets, who became her lifelong companion. The Nun's Story is a slightly fictionalized biographical account of Habets' life as a nun.
In her 1938 fictionalized autobiography We Lived as Children, Hulme describes a child's perspective of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake.
Bibliography
Arab Interlude, Macrae Smith Company (Philadelphia), 1930
Desert Night, The Macauley Company (New York), 1932
We lived as children, A.A. Knopf (New York, London), 1938 (LCCN: 38027542, ASIN: B000GBZZIU)
The Wild Place, (Atlantic Prize for Nonfiction (1952), Brown Little, 1953, (ISBN9787100102407)
The Nun's Story, Pocket Books, 1958 (ASIN: B000CBFXYA)
The Undiscovered Country: A Spiritual Adventure, Little, Brown & Co. (Boston USA/Toronto CA), 1967; reprinted (Natural Bridge Editions: Lexington MA, 1997) (ISBN1-891218-03-4)
Look A Lion In the Eye: On Safari Through Africa, Little, Brown & Co. First edition (1974) (ISBN0316381403)
Annie's Captain, Little, Brown and Company (Boston, Toronto), 1961
^The Rope 2006-06-16 at the Wayback Machine gurdjieff-legacy.org.
^Campbell, Debra (Winter 2008). "[About the Cover]: The Nun's Story: Another Look at the Postwar Religious Revival". American Catholic Studies. 119 (4): 103–108. JSTOR 44195197. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
External links
Kathryn Hulme Papers Digital collection at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University
Kathryn Hulme Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
short radio segment from We Lived as Children at California Legacy Project.
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