Kathryn Hulme (July 6, 1900 – August 25, 1981) was an American author and
memoirist most noted for her novel The Nun's Story. The book is often
misunderstood to be semi-autobiographical.Partner Alice Rohrer, Marie-Louise Habets
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Kathryn Hulme (July 6, 1900 – August 25, 1981) was an American author and
memoirist most noted for her novel The Nun's Story. The book is often
misunderstood to be semi-autobiographical.
How's the Road?, an account of her cross-country motor trip, was privately printed in 1928. The publication was financed by Alice Rohrer, a San Francisco milliner whom Hulme accompanied to Europe and Mexico between 1928 and 1937. Rohrer is mentioned frequently in the correspondence of Margaret Caroline Anderson, Solita Solano, and Janet Flanner. After Rohrer's death in March 1958, many letters of condolence contain detailed portraits of her.
Her 1956 book The Nun's Story was a best-selling novel which was made into an award-winning 1959 movie starring Audrey Hepburn and Peter Finch.
Another work, The Undiscovered Country: A Spiritual Adventure published by Little, Brown & Co. was a description of her years as a student of mystic G. I. Gurdjieff and her eventual conversion to Catholicism. Hulme studied with Gurdjieff as part of a group of women known as "The Rope", which included eight members in all: Jane Heap, Elizabeth Gordon, Solita Solano, Margaret Anderson, Louise Davidson and Alice Rohrer (who had been Hulme's companion at the time she met Gurdjieff) along with Hulme and Gurdjieff.[1]
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 World War II. 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, who became her lifelong companion. The Nun's Story is a slightly fictionalized biographical account of Habets' life as a nun.
In her 1938 fictionalized autobiography We Lived as Children, Hulme describes a child's perspective of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake.
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