Leaving Home

Anne Edwards is the author of several bestselling biographies of notable figures, including film stars Judy Garland, Vivien Leigh, and Katharine Hepburn, as well as Queen Mary and Gone with the Wind novelist Margaret Mitchell. A fastidious researcher and accomplished writer, Edwards received a Pulitzer prize nomination for her book Early Reagan: The Rise of an American Hero. In this new memoir, Edwards turns the spotlight on herself, chronicling her 20-year exile from the United States from the 1950s until the early 1970s. After working for MGM as a junior writer, Edwards sold two original screenplays and was employed as a story editor on a television program. An attack of polio left her physically compromised and struggling to make ends meet, so the divorced mother of two left her homeland to find work in Europe. After arriving in London, she was able to find writing jobs under an assumed name, along with her expatriated colleagues. Leaving Home is a personal story about a young mother and her two small children, but it is also about the many famous-and not so famous-people whose lives intertwined with theirs: Judy Garland, John Garfield, Rod Serling, Norman Mailer, Greta Garbo, and several others. This is an intimate story of a woman who refused to be subdued by her circumstances and determined to rebuild her life in the wake of McCarthyism. It is also a story about a woman who found and lost love and will appeal to any readers wanting to learn more about Hollywood history during one of its darkest periods.

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By Anne Edwards

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Acknowledgments
Preface: "Setting the Scene
Chapter One: The Departure
Chapter Two: An American in a Queen's Land
Chapter Three: In a London Kind of Fog
Chapter Four: A Dream Is Born
Chapter Five: Gentlemen Don't Always Prefer Blonds
Chapter Six: "My Kid Seems To Like Your Kid."
Chapter Seven: "Everything in Life Is a Gamble."
Chapter Eight: A Time for Decision - And Norman Mailer
Chapter Nine: Love and Other Emotions
Chapter Ten: "Funny Girl"
Chapter Eleven: Hollywood Calling
Chapter Twelve: A Question of Adultery
Chapter Thirteen: The End of An Affair
Chapter Fourteen: Judy, Judy, Judy!
Chapter Fifteen: The Emerald City of Madrid
Chapter Sixteen: Swiss Interlude
Chapter Seventeen: On the Riviera
Chapter Eighteen: Going Home
Chapter Nineteen: Last Call
Index
About the Author