Monday, December 09, 2019

A masked heart …

… Elizabeth Smart Died in 1986. Her Work Still Haunts Me | The Walrus. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

What far fewer people know about Elizabeth Smart—and what she declined to mention during the years I knew her in the 1980s—is that she spent much of her working life in London selling carpets, tiaras, and transistor radios as a witty fashion and advertising copywriter. She was reputed, at one point, to be the highest-paid commercial writer in England.
Read the whole thing. It is wonderful. By the way, this is Smart as she looked when was involved with Barker.

Dave Lull alerted me that the first link didn't work. This one seems to.

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