Kathryn Hulme

Kathryn Hulme

Infobox Writer
name = Kathryn Hulme
birthdate = birth date|1900|7|6
birthplace = San Francisco, California
deathdate = death date and age|1981|8|25|1900|7|6
deathplace = Lihue, Kauai, Hawaii
birthname = Kathryn Cavarly Hulme
spouse = Leonard D. Geldert (1925-1928)

Kathryn Hulme (July 6, 1900 - August 25, 1981). Author of "The Nun's Story" (1956) the best selling novel later made into an award winning movie starring Audrey Hepburn (1959) and "The Undiscovered Country: A Spiritual Adventure" (Little, Brown & Co. Boston USA/Toronto CA, 1967) reprinted (Natural Bridge Editions: Lexington MA, 1997) (ISBN 1-891218-03-4) a description of her years as a student of G. I. Gurdjieff. She is also the author of "Wild Place", a description of her experiences as the UNRRA Director of the Polish Displaced Persons (DP) camp at Wildflecken, Germany, after WWII. This work won the Atlantic Non-Fiction Award in 1952. It was at Wildflecken that Hulme met a Belgian nurse and former nun named Marie-Louise Habets [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Louise_Habets] , who became her lifelong companion. "The Nun's Story" is a slightly fictionalized biographical account of Habets' life as a nun.

External links

* [http://www.gurdjieff-legacy.org/70links/rope.htm Gurdjieff and Hulme]
* [http://webtext.library.yale.edu/xml2html/beinecke.hulme.nav.html The Kathryn Hulme Papers] at Yale University


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