Living with Koestler

Dust cover of 1st edition

Living with Koestler: Mamaine Koestler's Letters 1945-51 is the title of a book about the author Arthur Koestler and Mamaine Paget, Koestler’s second wife. More specifically, it is a selected compilation of Mamaine’s letters to her twin sister Celia about her life with Koestler. The spontaneous and engaging letters reflect the intensity of her life with Koestler between 1945 and 1951.

The book was written and edited by Celia Goodman, née Paget. In a 22-page Introduction she provides brief biographical essays of Koestler and of her sister Mamaine. In a Postscript she describes briefly Mamaine’s sudden and unexpected death in 1954 in a London hospital due to an episode of acute asthma.

The book was published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London 1985, 204 pages, including 8 pages of black & white photographs, numerous footnotes and an Index. ISBN 0297785311