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SIDELIGHTS: Hesper Anderson began her writing career as a screenwriter but has since turned to writing books. South Mountain Road: A Daughter's Journey of Discovery is a memoir of her childhood living in a thriving artistic and intellectual community in Rockland County, New York.
Hesper was a writer, known for Children of a Lesser God (1986), Touched by Love (1980) and The Deliberate Stranger (1986). Hesper was married to Earle H Levenstein. Hesper died on 17 October 2018 in Sherman Oaks, California, USA.
- Writer
- August 2, 1934
- Hesper Anderson
- October 17, 2018
Apr 26, 2002 · My mother killed herself on the first day of spring. So begins South Mountain Road, Hesper Anderson's elegant, wrenching memoir of death and deception, family secrets and memories, and of a young girl's trauma of self-discovery.
- Hesper Anderson
About The Book. "My mother killed herself on the first day of spring." So begins Hesper Anderson's elegant, wrenching memoir of death and deception, family secrets and memories, and of a young girl's trauma of self-discovery.
- Hesper Anderson
- April 26, 2002
- Paperback
Sep 4, 2015 · “My mother killed herself on the first day of spring.” That’s the first line of Hesper Anderson’s memoir, South Mountain Road: A Daughter’s Journey of Discovery. Please persevere. And don’t be put off by the subtitle—even if the squishy word “journey” gives you hives, the book won’t. I promise.
Maxwell Anderson's daughter, Hesper Anderson, wrote a book titled South Mountain Road: A Daughter's Journey of Discovery (Simon & Schuster, 2000) about her family life and this circle of artists. The road and some of its features gets a mention in writer James Salter 's 1997 memoir Burning the Days. [5]
Mar 8, 2000 · After her mother's suicide, Hesper Anderson journeys through her past to determine how and why her life got to this point. It was a fairly tragic journey, with very few bright spots along the way.
