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21. Just finished reading "The Honeycomb" by Adela Rogers St. Johns

Fri Dec 14, 2012, 11:29 AM

Dec 2012

Highly recommended autobiography I picked up used off Amazon.

She was the daughter of Earl Rogers (extraordinary LA lawyer at the turn of the last century) and was one of the first -- if not the first -- "girl reporters" for WR Hearst.

Lots of interesting and insightful anecdotes about early Hollywood, key stories of the era (Lindbergh kidnapping, Edward's abdication, etc.), and major personalities of the age (Valentino, Mary Pickford, Hearst, and others).

Her biography of her father is likewise fascinating (Final Verdict).

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Welcome to the Non-Fiction Group. [View all] Neoma Aug 2012 OP

Arcane1 here, and I'm a non-fiction-aholic arcane1 Aug 2012 #1

I mostly hear, "I'm a bibliophile!" Neoma Aug 2012 #2

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You can start a new thread with info, sure. Neoma Aug 2012 #11

Hi all! Glad to see this....big time reader of non-fiction, primarily NRaleighLiberal Aug 2012 #13

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I quit fiction years ago. You learn about your world from non-fiction. xtraxritical Aug 2012 #16

Except maybe the hard-core historical fiction. Neoma Aug 2012 #17

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Just finished reading "The Honeycomb" by Adela Rogers St. Johns Zorro Dec 2012 #21

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