Anne Cabot Wyman, Kipling's Cat: A Memoir of My Father

Start: Tue, 01/12/2010 - 7:00pm

"An insider's guide to the vanishing world of blueblood Boston...she limns the pleasures and perils of adoring a parent who was as colorful and elusive as a butterfly"

George Howe Colt, author of The Big House

"An insightful, engaging memoir of...a brilliant biochemist and a member of the 'Oppenheimer Fraternity,' a group of men and women who contributed so much to the advancement of science in the 20th century."

Martin Sherwin, co-author of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Growing up in a Boston blueblood family, Anne Cabot Wyman had adventures that extended far beyond New England. After losing her mother at age 13, Anne was raised from a distance by a father who instilled in her a passion for the road less traveled. An accomplished painter and a licensed pilot, she spent 30 years as a writer at the Boston Globe, including 5 years as the paper's first in-house travel writer and 10 years on the editorial page, much of it during Boston's tumultuous battle over school busing.

Location:

Porter Square Books
25 White St
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02140-1413