- Mamaine Koestler
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Arthur Koestler with Mamaine Paget, Robie Macauley, and Flannery O'Connor in 1947. Photo by C. Cameron Macauley.
Mamaine Koestler (7 September 1916 – 2 June 1954) was the second wife of the author Arthur Koestler. She married Koestler on 25 April 1950. They separated on amicable terms on 15 August 1952[1] but remained very close right up to her sudden and unexpected death. She died on 2 June 1954 in a London hospital of an episode of acute asthma.
Life
She was born Mamaine Paget in Melton, Suffolk, U.K., one of two identical twins. Her parents were Eric Morton Paget and Georgina Byng Paget (they both happened to have the surname ‘Paget’ but were unrelated). Her mother died of childbirth complications a week after giving birth to Mamaine and her twin sister Celia. The twins were brought up by their father, who was aged fifty at the time of their birth, with the help of a nanny, much loved by the twins.
Her childhood, education and early life, and details of her life with Koestler, both before and after her marriage, are candidly described in the book Living with Koestler: Mamaine Koestler's Letters 1945-51, written, compiled and edited by her twin Celia Goodman, published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London 1985. ISBN 0297785311.
References
- ^ Arthur and Cynthia Koestler: Stranger on the Square Hutchinson, London 1984, p.140
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