Living with Koestler
Appearance
Author | Celia Goodman |
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Genre | Biography |
Publisher | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Publication date | 1985 |
Media type | Book/Hardcover |
Pages | 204 (including index) illustrated with B&W photographs |
ISBN | 0297785311 |
Living with Koestler: Mamaine Koestler's Letters 1945-51 is 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.